Meaning of peel in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

• The action of peeling away from a formation.

• A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

verb

• To remove the skin or outer covering of.

  Example: I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.

• To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

  Example: I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.

• To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

  Example: I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.

• To remove one's clothing.

  Example: The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.

• To move, separate (off or away).

  Example: The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.

noun

• A stake.

• A fence made of stakes; a stockade.

• A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

noun

• A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.

• A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.

• The blade of an oar.

noun

• An equal or match; a draw.

• A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

verb

• To play a peel shot.

verb

• To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

verb

• To plunder; to pillage, rob.

noun

• A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.