Peel /(pēl)/

1. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]

1. 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.

1. To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.]

   But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces.

imp. & p. p. Peeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Peeling

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.

   The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.

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

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.
2. To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down . [nformal]

1. The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.