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ˈorange-ˌpeel
1. a. The rind of an orange, esp. when separated from the pulp.
1615Markham Eng. Housew. (1668) 114 Four or five Orange-peels dry and beaten to powder. 1626Bacon Sylva §21. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 90 The distilled water of Orange pilles. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 151 Candied Orange Peel. 1838Dickens O. Twist xiv, I've been lamed with orange-peel once, and I know orange-peel will be my death. 1899Westm. Gaz. 13 June 4/1 One of them [Republican journals] compares the events of Sunday simply to a piece of orange-peel on which M. Dupuy slipped.
b. attrib., as orange-peel cutter, orange-ˌpeel oil (= orange-oil), orange-ˌpeel water.
1757A. Cooper Distiller ii. xvi. (1760) 142 Recipe for one Gallon of Orange-peel-Water. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Orange-peel Cutter, a slicer of Seville orange-peel, for drying or candying. 1875–9Watts Dict. Chem. 2nd Suppl. 877 Orange-peel oil..The essential oil of orange-peel consists mainly of a hydrocarbon C10H16, called hesperidene.
2. Used, usu. attrib., to designate a suspended bucket or grab composed of a number of curved, pointed segments that are hinged at the top and come together to form a container.
1905C. Prelini Earth & Rock Excavation x. 129 Excavator-buckets are usually either clam-shell or orange-peel buckets. 1912C. G. Elliott Engin. for Land Drainage (ed. 2) xiv. 209 The orange-peel is particularly useful in building levees. 1922Powers & Teeter Land Drainage xvi. 170 (caption) A small dry land excavating outfit with orange-peel bucket. 1959Micropaleontol. V. 218/1 Two sampling devices were used, the Hayward standard orange-peel grab and a snapper sampler. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 527 The samples were taken with an orange-peel bottom sampler. 1975B. Fell Introd. Marine Biol. iii. 21 An orange-peel grab..has four valves that appear to form the four segments of an orange when cut along its meridians. |