Peel

·noun A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

II. Peel ·noun The skin or rind; as, the peel of an Orange.

III. Peel ·vt To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, ·etc.

IV. Peel ·vt To Plunder; to Pillage; to Rob.

V. Peel ·vi 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.

VI. Peel ·vt 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.

VII. Peel ·noun 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.