[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peel \peel\, v. t. imp.  p. p. peeled p=eld; p. pr. 
   vb. n. peeling. f. peler to pull out the hair, to strip,
   to peel, fr. l. pilare to deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair;
   or perh. partly fr. f. peler to peel off the skin, perh. fr.
   l. pellis skin cf. fell skin. cf. peruke.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            the skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin
      of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
      1913 webster
see also:
peeled peeling fell peruke 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peel \peel\ p=el, n. oe. pel. cf. pile a heap.
   a small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. scot.
   1913 webster
see also:
pile 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peel \peel\, n. f. pelle, l. pala.
   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.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peel \peel\, v. t. confused with peel to strip, but fr. f.
   piller to pillage. see pill to rob, pillage.
   to plunder; to pillage; to rob. obs.
   1913 webster

         but govern ill the nations under yoke,
         peeling their provinces.                 --milton.
   1913 webster
see also:
pill pillage 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peel \peel\, v. i.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to strip naked; to disrobe. often used with down .
      nformal
      pjc

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peel \peel\, n.
   the skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
   1913 webster

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

peel
     n 1: the tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit
          syn: skin, rind
     2: british politician 1788-1850 syn: robert peel, sir
        robert peel
     3: the rind of a fruit or vegetable syn: skin
     v 1: strip the skin off; "pare apples" syn: skin, pare
     2: come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "the paint in my
        house is peeling off" syn: peel off, flake off, flake
     3: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of
        everybody"; "she strips in front of strangers every night
        for a living" syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe,
         strip, strip down, disrobe ant: dress, dress
see also:
skin rind robert peel sir robert peel pare peel off 
flake off flake undress discase uncase 
unclothe strip strip down disrobe dress 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

162 moby thesaurus words for "peel":
   abscind, acropolis, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, bark, bastion,
   beachhead, blockhouse, bob, bran, bridgehead, bunker, capsule,
   case, castle, chaff, citadel, clip, coat, coating, collop, cork,
   corn shuck, cornhusk, cortex, covering, crop, cull, cut, cut away,
   cut off, cut out, deal, decorticate, defoliate, denude, descale,
   desquamate, disk, dismember, disrobe, dock, donjon,
   draw and quarter, eliminate, enucleate, epicarp, eradicate, except,
   excise, exclude, excoriate, exfoliate, extinguish, extirpate,
   fasthold, fastness, feuille, film, flake off, flap, flay, foil,
   fold, fort, fortress, garrison, garrison house, hold, hull, husk,
   isolate, jacket, keep, knock off, lacerate, lamella, lamina,
   laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, lop, maim, mangle,
   martello, martello tower, membrane, mote, motte, mutilate, nip,
   palea, pane, panel, pare, patina, peel off, peel tower, peeling,
   pellicle, phellum, pick out, pick to pieces, pillbox, plait, plank,
   plate, plating, ply, plywood, pod, post, prune, pull apart, rasher,
   rath, rind, root out, rule out, safehold, safety glass, scale,
   scalp, scum, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, sheet, shell,
   shred, shuck, skin, slab, slat, slice, stamp out, strike off,
   strip, strip off, strong point, stronghold, table, tablet,
   take apart, take off, take out, tear apart, tear to pieces,
   tear to tatters, tower, tower of strength, truncate, uncovered,
   undress, veneer, wafer, ward, wipe out

[9] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

peel
     
        used to implement version of emacs on prime computers.
     
     
see also:
emacs prime 

[10] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

peel, ar
  zip codes: 72668

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