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Peel
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
(4):
(v. i.) 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.
(5):
(v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
(6):
(v. t.) 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.
(7):
(n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Peel'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/peel.html. 1828.
