peel🔊

To remove the skin or outer covering of.

To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

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

To remove one's clothing.

To move, separate (off or away).

The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

(rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.

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

(obsolete) A stake.

(obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.

(archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

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.

(US) The blade of an oar.

(curling) An equal or match; a draw.

(curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

(curling) To play a peel shot.

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

To plunder; to pillage, rob.

(a small or young salmon)

(nodot=1): to sound loudly.