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(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.

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.

A stake.

A fence made of stakes; a stockade.

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.

The blade of an oar.

An equal or match; a draw.

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

To play a peel shot.

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

To plunder; to pillage, rob.

A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.