- verbpeel (verb) · peels (third person present) · peeled (past tense) · peeled (past participle) · peeling (present participle)
- remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable):"she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care"
- remove (the outer covering or skin) from a fruit or vegetable:"with a small knife, peel the skin from the ginger"
- (of a fruit or vegetable) have a skin that can be removed:"oranges that peel easily"
- (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces:"the walls are peeling"
- (of an outer layer or covering) come off, especially in strips or small pieces:"paint was peeling from the shopfronts"
nounpeel (noun) · peels (plural noun)- the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): variant of dialect pill, from Latin pilare ‘to strip hair from’, from pilus ‘hair’. The differentiation of peel and pill may have been by association with the French verbs peler ‘to peel’ and piller ‘to pillage’.nounpeel (noun) · peels (plural noun)- a flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven:"a wooden pizza peel"
Originlate Middle English: from Old French pele, from Latin pala, from the base of pangere ‘fasten’.nounpeel (noun) · peels (plural noun) · peel tower (noun) · peel towers (plural noun)- a small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland:"in 1326 orders were given for the peel of the castle to be repaired"
Originlate Middle English (in sense ‘palisade or fence formed of stakes’): from Anglo-Norman French pel, peel, pele ‘stake, palisade’, from Latin palus ‘stake’. The current sense is probably short for synonymous peel-house.verbcroquetpeel (verb) · peels (third person present) · peeled (past tense) · peeled (past participle) · peeling (present participle)- send (another player's ball) through a wicket:"the better players are capable of peeling a ball through two or three wickets"
Originlate 19th century: from the name of Walter H. Peel, founder of the All England Croquet Association, a leading exponent of the practice.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable):
- (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces:
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- Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.Peel, pare agree in meaning to remove the skin or rind from something. Peel means to pull or strip off the natural external covering or protection of something: to peel an orange, a potato.www.dictionary.com/browse/peelPeel means to pull or strip off the natural external covering or protection of something: to peel an orange, a potato.www.wordreference.com/definition/Peel
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