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peel1 (pēl)

[From Middle English pilen, pelen, to peel, from Old French peler,, Old English pilian (both from Latin pilāre, to deprive of hair) (from pilus, hair), and from Old French pillier, to tug, pull, plunder (from Latin pilleum, felt cap).]

noun 

  1. The skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables.
  2. A chemical peel.

verb: peeled, peel·ing, peels. 

transitive verb 

  1. To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare.
  2. To strip away; pull off: peeled the label from the jar.

intransitive verb 

  1. To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering.
  2. To come off in thin strips or pieces, as bark, skin, or paint: Her sunburned skin began to peel.
  3. Slang To remove one's clothes; undress.

phrasal verbs

peel off
To leave flight formation in order to land or make a dive. Used of an aircraft.
To leave or depart.
peel2 (pēl)

[Middle English, from Old French pele, from Latin pāla, spade, peel.]

noun 

  1. A long-handled, shovellike tool used by bakers to move bread or pastries into and out of an oven.
  2. Printing A T-shaped pole used for hanging up freshly printed sheets of paper to dry.
peel3 (pēl)

[Middle English pel, stake, small castle, from Anglo-Norman, stockade, variant of Old French, stake, from Latin pālus.]

noun 

A fortified house or tower of a kind constructed in the borderland of Scotland and England in the 16th century.