'Peel' definitions:
Definition of 'Peel'
(from WordNet)
noun
British politician (1788-1850) [syn: Peel, Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel]
noun
The rind of a fruit or vegetable [syn: peel, skin]
verb
verb
Come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off" [syn: peel off, peel, flake off, flake]
verb
Get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" [syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, get dressed, habilitate, raiment, tog]
Definition of 'Peel'
From: GCIDE
- Peel \Peel\ (p[=e]l), n. [OE. pel. Cf. Pile a heap.] A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Peel'
From: GCIDE
- Peel \Peel\, n. [F. pelle, L. pala.] A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Peel'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Peel'
From: GCIDE
- Peel \Peel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peeled (p[=e]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Peeling.] [F. peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to peel, fr. L. pilare to deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or perh. partly fr. F. peler to peel off the skin, perh. fr. L. pellis skin (cf. Fell skin). Cf. Peruke.]
- 1. To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange. [1913 Webster]
- The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Peel'
From: GCIDE
- Peel \Peel\, v. i.
- 1. To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down . [nformal] [PJC]
Definition of 'Peel'
From: GCIDE
- Peel \Peel\, n. The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'peel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscind,
- acropolis,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- ban,
- bar,
- bark,
- bastion,
- beachhead,
- blockhouse,
- bob,
- bran,
- bridgehead,
- bunker,
- capsule,
- case,
- castle,
- chaff,
- citadel,
- clip,
- coat,
- coating,
- collop,
- cork,
- corn shuck,
- cornhusk,
- cortex,
- covering,
- crop,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- deal,
- decorticate,
- defoliate,
- denude,
- descale,
- desquamate,
- disk,
- dismember,
- disrobe,
- dock,
- donjon,
- draw and quarter,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- epicarp,
- eradicate,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- excoriate,
- exfoliate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- fasthold,
- fastness,
- feuille,
- film,
- flake off,
- flap,
- flay,
- foil,
- fold,
- fort,
- fortress,
- garrison,
- garrison house,
- hold,
- hull,
- husk,
- isolate,
- jacket,
- keep,
- knock off,
- lacerate,
- lamella,
- lamina,
- laminated glass,
- laminated wood,
- lap,
- leaf,
- lop,
- maim,
- mangle,
- martello,
- martello tower,
- membrane,
- mote,
- motte,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- palea,
- pane,
- panel,
- pare,
- patina,
- peel off,
- peel tower,
- peeling,
- pellicle,
- phellum,
- pick out,
- pick to pieces,
- pillbox,
- plait,
- plank,
- plate,
- plating,
- ply,
- plywood,
- pod,
- post,
- prune,
- pull apart,
- rasher,
- rath,
- rind,
- root out,
- rule out,
- safehold,
- safety glass,
- scale,
- scalp,
- scum,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shear,
- sheet,
- shell,
- shred,
- shuck,
- skin,
- slab,
- slat,
- slice,
- stamp out,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip off,
- strong point,
- stronghold,
- table,
- tablet,
- take apart,
- take off,
- take out,
- tear apart,
- tear to pieces,
- tear to tatters,
- tower,
- tower of strength,
- truncate,
- uncovered,
- undress,
- veneer,
- wafer,
- ward,
- wipe out