noun. A fortified house or tower of a kind constructed in the borderland of Scotland and England in the 1500s.

noun. The skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables.

noun. A chemical peel.

intransitive verb. To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare.

intransitive verb. To strip away; pull off.

intransitive verb. To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering.

intransitive verb. To come off in thin strips or pieces, as bark, skin, or paint.

phrasal verb. To remove (an article of clothing that fits snugly).

phrasal verb. To break away from a group in motion, especially to leave flight formation in order to land an aircraft or make a dive.

phrasal verb. To leave or depart, especially in a hurry.

phrasal verb. To leave quickly, especially by accelerating a vehicle so that the tires spin.

noun. A long-handled, shovellike tool used by bakers to move bread or pastries into and out of an oven.

noun. A T-shaped pole used for hanging up freshly printed sheets of paper to dry.

noun. The skin, bark or rind of anything: as, the peel of an orange.

noun. Synonyms Rind, etc. See skin.

To strip the skin, bark, or rind from; strip by drawing or tearing off the skin; flay; decorticate; bark: as, to peel a tree; to peel an orange.

To strip off; remove by stripping.

Synonyms see pare, v. t

To lose the skin or rind; be separated or come off in thin flakes or pellicles: as, the orange peels easily; the bark peels off Swift.

To undress.

noun. A fortified tower; a stronghold.

noun. An equal; a match: as, they were peels at twelve.

To plunder; devastate; spoil.

noun. A kind of wooden shovel with a broad blade and long handle, used by bakers to put bread into or take it out of the oven.

noun. In printing, a wooden pole with a short cross-piece at one end, in the form of the letter , used to convey printed sheets to and from the horizontal poles on which they are dried.

noun. The wash or blade of an oar, as distinguished from the loom.

noun. A mark resembling a skewer with a large ring (), formerly used in England as a mark for cattle, a signature-mark for persons unable to write, or the like.

To be equal or have the same score in a game.

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

noun. 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.

noun. The skin or rind.

transitive verb. 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.

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

transitive verb. To plunder; to pillage; to rob.

intransitive verb. To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb.

intransitive verb. To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down .

noun. A stake.

noun. A fence made of stakes; a stockade.

noun. 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 loaves of bread from a baker's oven.

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

noun. The blade of an oar.

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

verb. Common misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.

noun. An equal or match; a draw.

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

verb. To plunder; to pillage, rob.

verb. To remove the skin or outer covering of.

verb. To remove from the outer or top layer of.

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

"The thought of Beck slipping on a banana peel is making me laugh like crazy!"

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Biel  Brasil  Camille  Cecile  Cele  

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