peelern.¹

Brit.

/ˈpiːlə/, U.S.

/ˈpilər/

Forms: late Middle English peler, late Middle English pelour, 1500s pelowr, 1500s pieller, 1500s– peeler, 1600s pieler, 1800s– pealer (chiefly U.S.); also Scottish pre-1700 pealler, pre-1700 peiler, pre-1700 peiller, pre-1700 peillour, pre-1700 peilour, pre-1700 pelar, pre-1700 peler, pre-1700 pelor, pre-1700 pelour, pre-1700 peloure, pre-1700 peylour. N.E.D. (1904) also records a form late Middle English pelowr.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peel v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < peel v.¹ + -er suffix¹. Compare earlier piller n.With forms in -or , -our , -oure compare -or suffix.

†I. Senses relating to pillage (see peel v.¹ I.).

a. A plunderer; a robber, a thief; = piller n. 1a. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun]

riflera1350

ravenerc1384

pillerc1385

preyerc1390

raptora1398

peelera1425

despoiler1467

spulyierc1475

pillardc1485

ruggerc1485

pollera1513

booty-fellow1530

spoiler1535

caterpillar1541

kitea1556

ransacker?1576

predator1581

lurdan1589

worm1591

scraper1598

pillager?1611

ravager1611

bird of preya1616

depredator1626

plunderer1639

expilator1658

shark1713

depredationist1828

spoliator1831

rapiner1843

ravisher1851

a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 5 (MED) Now have þai, þe pelers, priked obout, Bot at þe last sir Edward rifild þaire rout.

a1450–1500 ( Libel Eng. Policy (1926) 163 (MED) They [sc. pirates of Brittany] have take notable gode of oures On thys seyde see, these false coloured pelours.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 122 Than every pelour and purspyk Sayis, ‘Land war bettir warit on me’.

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xi.) f. 191^v A vyle couetouse extorsioner and pieller of the peple.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 67 Apollodorus the Theefe, Pieler and spoyler of the Cassandrines.

b. A plant that impoverishes the soil; = piller n. 1b. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > that takes too much soil

peeler1580

piller1615

gross feeder1845

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of

costardc1390

bitter-sweet1393

Queening?1435

richardine?1435

blaundrellc1440

pear apple1440

tuberc1440

quarrendenc1450

birtle1483

deusan1570

apple-john1572

Richard1572

lording1573

greening1577

queen apple1579

peeler1580

darling1584

doucin1584

golding1589

puffin1589

lady's longing1591

bitter-sweeting1597

pearmain1597

paradise apple1598

garden globe1600

gastlet1600

leather-coat1600

maligar1600

pome-paradise1601

French pippin1629

gillyflower1629

king apple1635

lady apple1651

golden pippin1654

goldling1655

puff1655

cardinal1658

green fillet1662

chestnut1664

cinnamon apple1664

fenouil1664

go-no-further1664

Westbury apple1664

seek-no-farther1670

nonsuch1676

calville1691

passe-pomme1691

fennel apple1699

queen1699

genet1706

fig-apple1707

oaken pin1707

nonpareil1726

costing1731

monstrous reinette1731

Newtown pippin1760

Ribston1782

Rhode Island greening1795

oslin1801

fall pippin1803

monstrous pippin1817

Newtown Spitzenburg1817

Gravenstein1821

Red Astrachan1822

Tolman sweet1822

grange apple1823

orange pippin1823

Baldwin1826

Sturmer Pippin1831

Newtowner1846

Northern Spy1847

Blenheim Orange1860

Cox1860

McIntosh Red1876

Worcester1877

raspberry apple1894

delicious1898

Laxton's Superb1920

Macoun1924

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of

costardc1390

bitter-sweet1393

pippin?1435

pomewater?1435

Queening?1435

richardine?1435

blaundrellc1440

pear apple1440

tuberc1440

quarrendenc1450

birtle1483

sweeting1530

pomeroyal1534

renneta1568

deusan1570

apple-john1572

Richard1572

lording1573

russeting1573

greening1577

queen apple1579

peeler1580

reinette1582

darling1584

doucin1584

golding1589

puffin1589

lady's longing1591

bitter-sweeting1597

pearmain1597

paradise apple1598

garden globe1600

gastlet1600

leather-coat1600

maligar1600

pomeroy1600

short-start1600

jenneting1601

pome-paradise1601

russet coat1602

John apple1604

honey apple1611

honeymeal1611

musk apple1611

short-shank1611

spice apple1611

French pippin1629

king apple1635

lady apple1651

golden pippin1654

goldling1655

puff1655

cardinal1658

renneting1658

green fillet1662

chestnut1664

cinnamon apple1664

fenouil1664

go-no-further1664

reinetting1664

Westbury apple1664

seek-no-farther1670

nonsuch1676

white-wining1676

russet1686

calville1691

fennel apple1699

queen1699

genet1706

fig-apple1707

oaken pin1707

musk1708

nonpareil1726

costing1731

monstrous reinette1731

Newtown pippin1760

Ribston1782

Rhode Island greening1795

oslin1801

wine apple1802

fall pippin1803

monstrous pippin1817

Newtown Spitzenburg1817

Gravenstein1821

Red Astrachan1822

Tolman sweet1822

grange apple1823

orange pippin1823

Baldwin1826

wine-sap1826

Jonathan1831

Sturmer Pippin1831

rusty-coat1843

Newtowner1846

Northern Spy1847

Cornish gilliflowerc1850

Blenheim Orange1860

Cox1860

nutmeg pippin1860

McIntosh Red1876

Worcester1877

raspberry apple1894

delicious1898

Laxton's Superb1920

Melba apple1928

Melba1933

Mutsu1951

Newtown1953

discovery1964

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 21 Graie wheat is the grosest,..and a peeler of ground.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. (1697) 40 Oats..are esteemed a peeler of the Ground.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 117 Hemp..as 'tis esteemed a peeler of Land, 'tis best to sow it upon Lands that are rank.

1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Mar. v. 38 All the Oat Tribe are great Peelers or Robbers of the Goodness of the Earth.

1763 J. Wheeler Botanist's & Gardener's New Dict. 100/1 Hemp is a very good thing for destroying weeds, but it is what the farmers call a peeler of land, that is, it robs and exhausts it very quick.

II. Senses relating to decortication (see peel v.¹ II.).

2. A person who peels, strips, or pares off the skin or rind of a piece of fruit, the bark of trees, etc.; (also) a device or instrument for peeling.bark-, potato, osier-peeler, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > of skin, bark, husk, etc. > one who or that which

piller?c1475

peelera1500

a1500 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 342/1 Pelaris of grene wode.

1509 Justiciary Rec. II. 144 Gif thair be ony..pelaris of grene wode.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een scheller, a Peeler, a Rinder or a Shaler.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Peeler, one who strips or flays.

1846 H. Marshall Ceylon 11 Peelers who failed to produce monthly above 30 lbs. of cinnamon, were liable to be flogged.

1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 14/1 The peelers [of peaches] earn from sixty cents. to two dollars per day.

1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Aug. 528/1 The [coffee] beans again thoroughly dried and the parchment skin removed by a ‘peeler’.

1942 Sun (Baltimore) 31 July 4/2 Over one hundred women from Caroline county work in the canneries every season as ‘skinners’ or ‘pealers’.

1972 Foxfire Bk. k83 One woman claimed that with a peeler, she could core, peel, and slice a bushel of apples in fifty-four minutes.

1991 Wine Spectator 15 May 45/2 Using a paring knife or vegetable peeler, pare the zest from the lemon.

†a. A person who undresses; spec. a boxer who strips for a fight. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer

buffeter1483

pugil1646

cuffer1662

boxer1672

pugilistc1740

setter-to1810

miller1812

sparrer1814

pet1825

pugilistic1827

slogger1829

fist-mate1834

peeler1852

pug1858

scrapper1874

slugger1877

slogster1881

basher1882

fisticuffer1888

ring man1899

ringster1902

pucker1919

1852 W. G. Simms As Good as Comedy iv. 56 ‘I know you hain't got the teeth to raise the skin of that varmint.’ ‘Hain't I, then? Just you try it, then,..and see if I ain't a peeler.’ ‘Will you peel?’ ‘Won't I, then?’ ‘Jake, my boy, I've come here to-day to strip the skin off you altogether.’

b. Chiefly North American. A striptease artist; a stripper.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist

teaser1929

stripper1930

strip-teaser1930

strippeuse1939

ecdysiast1940

strip-teaseuse1941

peeler1942

stripteuse1942

strip-tease artist1947

exotic1954

split beaver1972

1942 ATS 574 ‘Strip teaser’..peeler.

1955 Variety 9 Mar. 62/4 Chicago, for years a stripper's haven, is now seriously beset by a dearth of peelers.

1962 Herald-Press (St. Joseph, Mich.) 6 Feb. 14/2 A..montage which shows her developing from a shy, hesitant peeler to the strutting, insinuating Gypsy [Rose Lee], confident of each and every movement.

2000 Standard (Ont., Canada) (Nexis) 29 July f3 Shirley is a professional peeler by trade and she was recently fired by a Brantford strip joint claiming she's too old to attract a crowd.

4. A crab or crayfish when it casts its shell. Also more fully peeler crab.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > crabs at particular stage

soft crab1737

softshell crab1806

megalopa1815

buster1855

megalops1855

shedder-crab1860

peeler1866

shedder1872

prawn-stage1896

fat crab1905

1852 Zoologist 10 3682 It [sc. common shore crab] is occasionally employed as bait, particularly the ‘peelarts’, as those that have just cast their shell are called.]

1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) Addit. 229 Peeler, the Shore-crab when casting its shell.

1883 Cent. Mag. July 378/2 Large craw-fish, which were about to shed their outer cases, or shells, and which for this reason are called ‘shedders’, or ‘Peelers’.

1911 C. O. Minchin Sea-fishing xvii. 245 When the cold outer shell has cracked and is ready to fall, and the new soft shell beneath is growing to replace it, the crab is called a ‘peeler’, and is then in the best condition for bait.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 27 July 9/8 Hook-and-line fishermen can scarcely buy the popular peeler crab bait for fishing.

1976 Sc. Daily Express 24 Dec. 12/6 For the smaller fish, rag and lugworm, soft peeler crab and strips of herring or mackerel are usually acceptable.

1995 Chesapeake Bay Mag. Oct. 96/3 We stopped briefly at a little fyke (weir) net system Donnie had set up along the creek to catch peeler crabs, our bait.

5. In full peeler log. The trunk of a tree, esp. a softwood tree, suitable for the manufacture of veneer by the use of a rotary lathe, which peels thin sheets of wood from the log.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > undressed trunk or log > types of

butt log1779

upper1877

stave bolt1878

sinker1884

teak log1889

peeler1935

1935 Timberman Dec. 3/2 Some studies should be undertaken at once to determine the economic limits of the Douglas fir peelers... The log scarcity has brought forth the Veneer specialist, who makes a business of producing and preparing peeler logs for the plywood trade.

1948 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 42 33 Poplar plywood could be manufactured if more peeler logs were grown.

1973 Nature West Coast 62 Wood [of grand fir] is used for pulp, lumber and peelers (core stock for plywood).

2003 Mercury (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 July 11 Mr Gordon said the peeler logs were exported as part of veneer peeling trials to establish markets for Tasmanian eucalypt in China and Korea.

III. Other senses.

†6. U.S. colloquial.

a. An exceptional or noteworthy example of something; esp. a very violent storm. Obsolete.

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1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. xv. 212 It's a peeler without, I can tell you, good woman.

1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major 147 Says he, ‘Major, that's a sharp piece you are firin with there.’ ‘It's a peeler,’ says I.

1843 A. S. Stephens High Life in N.Y. I. 214 Sam's fust book was a peeler, and a credit to the family.

1861 Entertaining Things I. 197 The gale..was a steady hard blow, what sailors call a peeler.

1880 J. Fiske Let. 24 July (1940) 437 We made a plan to send you a huge letter—such as I call ‘one of my old peelers’—and give you a more or less detailed account of all the goings-on since the May-day.

b. A person of extraordinary or unusual qualities; a lively and energetic person; a person with exceptional aptitude or enthusiasm for an activity. Obsolete.

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1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing ii. 40 He's a real peeler for speaking, and sometimes he pours out his voice so as to make me jump right up on my feet.

1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing lxv. 218 Them are Pennsylvany chaps are real pealers for electing folks when they take hold.

1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 82 I was talking with a rare peeler of a gal.

1881 W. M. Thayer From Log Cabin to White House xiii. 207 He's a peeler for work, too; ain't afraid to dirty hisself.

1883 I. Flagg Versicles 47 On terra firm I'm just a roarin' peeler!

7. U.S. slang. A cowboy.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > keeper of cattle > tender of cattle

cowman1593

cowboy1623

cow-man1677

cowgirl1753

stockman1806

cowboy1825

cowboy1849

fogger1858

cow-woman1870

cattleman1878

cow-girl1884

tackman1885

cow-hand1886

peeler1894

rawhider1908

stock-boy1937

1894 O. Wister Out West: Jrnls. & Lett. (1958) 198 Peeler, cowpuncher.

1914 ‘B. M. Bower’ Flying U Ranch 7 This is Mr. Mig-u-ell Rapponi, boys—a peeler straight from the Golden Gate.

1937 Dial. Notes 6 618 Used in its strictest sense, the peeler refers to the cowpuncher who rides into the herd and ‘cuts’ out the horse desired.

1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) ii. 103 Was your old daddy a certified peeler?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

peelern.³

Brit.

/ˈpiːlə/, U.S.

/ˈpilər/, Irish English

/ˈpiːlər/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Peel , -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < the name of Sir Robert Peel (1788–1850), British politician and prime minister (1834–5, 1841–6), founder of the Conservative Party and the Irish constabulary, and (as Home Secretary) responsible for setting up the London police force in 1829 + -er suffix¹. Compare later bobby n. 1.

colloquial (originally British and Irish English). Now chiefly archaic and historical.

Originally: a member of the Irish constabulary. Later: (more gen.) a police officer; spec. a member of the original London Metropolitan force.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman

truncheon officer1708

runner1735

horny1753

nibbing-cull1775

nabbing-cull1780

police officer1784

police constable1787

policeman1788

scout1789

nabman1792

nabber1795

pig1811

Bow-street officer1812

nab1813

peeler1816

split1819

grunter1823

robin redbreast1824

bulky1828

raw (or unboiled) lobster1829

Johnny Darm1830

polis1833

crusher1835

constable1839

police1839

agent1841

johndarm1843

blue boy1844

bobby1844

bluebottle1845

copper1846

blue1848

polisman1850

blue coat1851

Johnny1851

PC1851

spot1851

Jack1854

truncheonist1854

fly1857

greycoat1857

cop1859

Cossack1859

slop1859

scuffer1860

nailerc1863

worm1864

Robert1870

reeler1879

minion of the law1882

ginger pop1887

rozzer1888

nark1890

bull1893

grasshopper1893

truncheon-bearer1896

John1898

finger1899

flatty1899

mug1903

John Dunn1904

John Hop1905

gendarme1906

Johnny Hop1908

pavement pounder1908

buttons1911

flat-foot1913

pounder1919

Hop1923

bogy1925

shamus1925

heat1928

fuzz1929

law1929

narker1932

roach1932

jonnop1938

grass1939

roller1940

Babylon1943

walloper1945

cozzer1950

Old Bill1958

cowboy1959

monaych1961

cozzpot1962

policeperson1965

woolly1965

Fed1966

wolly1970

plod1971

roz1971

Smokey Bear1974

bear1975

beast1978

woodentop1981

Five-O1983

dibble1990

Bow-street runner-

1816 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 34 854 He was assured, that no good whatever was done by what, in compliment to the right hon. gentleman, were called ‘the peelers’.

1818 R. Peel Let. to Gregory 14 Apr. We must not make the Peelers unpopular, by maintaining them against the declared and unequivocal sense of the county in which they act.

1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 25 569 The ‘Peelers’ (by which significant term the whole constabulary force appointed under Mr. Goulburn's bill, as well as those by Mr. Peel's act, are known in the vernacular).

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xiv. 206 He's gone for a peeler and a search warrant to break open the door.

1871 L. H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 515 There is a sort of traditional hostility between the students and the ‘peelers’—as the city police are always called.

1917 S. O'Kelly Waysiders 22 It is not for the Peelers to put the honest man on one side and the thief on the other.

1929 Bookman Nov. 264/1 ‘What is it, Fra Diavolo?’ he asked... ‘A peeler, fellow, a sleuth-hound.’

1954 N. Coward London at Night in B. Day N. Coward: Compl. Lyrics (1998) 289/2 Certainly ‘Peelers’ If only they're viewed sentimentally Have a reassuring charm Quite unlike the French Gendarme.

1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman ix. 78 The close-fitting jackets have the effect of making portly peelers look portlier.

1993 Guardian 24 Feb. ii. 10/3 The film was too far-fetched—though I have seen people hand-braking in front of the Peelers [sc. the Royal Ulster Constabulary].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	peeler
释义	peelern.¹ Brit. /ˈpiːlə/, U.S. /ˈpilər/ Forms: late Middle English peler, late Middle English pelour, 1500s pelowr, 1500s pieller, 1500s– peeler, 1600s pieler, 1800s– pealer (chiefly U.S.); also Scottish pre-1700 pealler, pre-1700 peiler, pre-1700 peiller, pre-1700 peillour, pre-1700 peilour, pre-1700 pelar, pre-1700 peler, pre-1700 pelor, pre-1700 pelour, pre-1700 peloure, pre-1700 peylour. N.E.D. (1904) also records a form late Middle English pelowr. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peel v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < peel v.¹ + -er suffix¹. Compare earlier piller n.With forms in -or , -our , -oure compare -or suffix. †I. Senses relating to pillage (see peel v.¹ I.). 1. a. A plunderer; a robber, a thief; = piller n. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun] riflera1350 ravenerc1384 pillerc1385 preyerc1390 raptora1398 peelera1425 despoiler1467 spulyierc1475 pillardc1485 ruggerc1485 pollera1513 booty-fellow1530 spoiler1535 caterpillar1541 kitea1556 ransacker?1576 predator1581 lurdan1589 worm1591 scraper1598 pillager?1611 ravager1611 bird of preya1616 depredator1626 plunderer1639 expilator1658 shark1713 depredationist1828 spoliator1831 rapiner1843 ravisher1851 a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 5 (MED) Now have þai, þe pelers, priked obout, Bot at þe last sir Edward rifild þaire rout. a1450–1500 ( Libel Eng. Policy (1926) 163 (MED) They [sc. pirates of Brittany] have take notable gode of oures On thys seyde see, these false coloured pelours. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 122 Than every pelour and purspyk Sayis, ‘Land war bettir warit on me’. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xi.) f. 191^v A vyle couetouse extorsioner and pieller of the peple. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 67 Apollodorus the Theefe, Pieler and spoyler of the Cassandrines. b. A plant that impoverishes the soil; = piller n. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > that takes too much soil peeler1580 piller1615 gross feeder1845 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of costardc1390 bitter-sweet1393 Queening?1435 richardine?1435 blaundrellc1440 pear apple1440 tuberc1440 quarrendenc1450 birtle1483 deusan1570 apple-john1572 Richard1572 lording1573 greening1577 queen apple1579 peeler1580 darling1584 doucin1584 golding1589 puffin1589 lady's longing1591 bitter-sweeting1597 pearmain1597 paradise apple1598 garden globe1600 gastlet1600 leather-coat1600 maligar1600 pome-paradise1601 French pippin1629 gillyflower1629 king apple1635 lady apple1651 golden pippin1654 goldling1655 puff1655 cardinal1658 green fillet1662 chestnut1664 cinnamon apple1664 fenouil1664 go-no-further1664 Westbury apple1664 seek-no-farther1670 nonsuch1676 calville1691 passe-pomme1691 fennel apple1699 queen1699 genet1706 fig-apple1707 oaken pin1707 nonpareil1726 costing1731 monstrous reinette1731 Newtown pippin1760 Ribston1782 Rhode Island greening1795 oslin1801 fall pippin1803 monstrous pippin1817 Newtown Spitzenburg1817 Gravenstein1821 Red Astrachan1822 Tolman sweet1822 grange apple1823 orange pippin1823 Baldwin1826 Sturmer Pippin1831 Newtowner1846 Northern Spy1847 Blenheim Orange1860 Cox1860 McIntosh Red1876 Worcester1877 raspberry apple1894 delicious1898 Laxton's Superb1920 Macoun1924 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of costardc1390 bitter-sweet1393 pippin?1435 pomewater?1435 Queening?1435 richardine?1435 blaundrellc1440 pear apple1440 tuberc1440 quarrendenc1450 birtle1483 sweeting1530 pomeroyal1534 renneta1568 deusan1570 apple-john1572 Richard1572 lording1573 russeting1573 greening1577 queen apple1579 peeler1580 reinette1582 darling1584 doucin1584 golding1589 puffin1589 lady's longing1591 bitter-sweeting1597 pearmain1597 paradise apple1598 garden globe1600 gastlet1600 leather-coat1600 maligar1600 pomeroy1600 short-start1600 jenneting1601 pome-paradise1601 russet coat1602 John apple1604 honey apple1611 honeymeal1611 musk apple1611 short-shank1611 spice apple1611 French pippin1629 king apple1635 lady apple1651 golden pippin1654 goldling1655 puff1655 cardinal1658 renneting1658 green fillet1662 chestnut1664 cinnamon apple1664 fenouil1664 go-no-further1664 reinetting1664 Westbury apple1664 seek-no-farther1670 nonsuch1676 white-wining1676 russet1686 calville1691 fennel apple1699 queen1699 genet1706 fig-apple1707 oaken pin1707 musk1708 nonpareil1726 costing1731 monstrous reinette1731 Newtown pippin1760 Ribston1782 Rhode Island greening1795 oslin1801 wine apple1802 fall pippin1803 monstrous pippin1817 Newtown Spitzenburg1817 Gravenstein1821 Red Astrachan1822 Tolman sweet1822 grange apple1823 orange pippin1823 Baldwin1826 wine-sap1826 Jonathan1831 Sturmer Pippin1831 rusty-coat1843 Newtowner1846 Northern Spy1847 Cornish gilliflowerc1850 Blenheim Orange1860 Cox1860 nutmeg pippin1860 McIntosh Red1876 Worcester1877 raspberry apple1894 delicious1898 Laxton's Superb1920 Melba apple1928 Melba1933 Mutsu1951 Newtown1953 discovery1964 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 21 Graie wheat is the grosest,..and a peeler of ground. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. (1697) 40 Oats..are esteemed a peeler of the Ground. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 117 Hemp..as 'tis esteemed a peeler of Land, 'tis best to sow it upon Lands that are rank. 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Mar. v. 38 All the Oat Tribe are great Peelers or Robbers of the Goodness of the Earth. 1763 J. Wheeler Botanist's & Gardener's New Dict. 100/1 Hemp is a very good thing for destroying weeds, but it is what the farmers call a peeler of land, that is, it robs and exhausts it very quick. II. Senses relating to decortication (see peel v.¹ II.). 2. A person who peels, strips, or pares off the skin or rind of a piece of fruit, the bark of trees, etc.; (also) a device or instrument for peeling.bark-, potato, osier-peeler, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > of skin, bark, husk, etc. > one who or that which piller?c1475 peelera1500 a1500 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 342/1 Pelaris of grene wode. 1509 Justiciary Rec. II. 144 Gif thair be ony..pelaris of grene wode. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een scheller, a Peeler, a Rinder or a Shaler. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Peeler, one who strips or flays. 1846 H. Marshall Ceylon 11 Peelers who failed to produce monthly above 30 lbs. of cinnamon, were liable to be flogged. 1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 14/1 The peelers [of peaches] earn from sixty cents. to two dollars per day. 1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Aug. 528/1 The [coffee] beans again thoroughly dried and the parchment skin removed by a ‘peeler’. 1942 Sun (Baltimore) 31 July 4/2 Over one hundred women from Caroline county work in the canneries every season as ‘skinners’ or ‘pealers’. 1972 Foxfire Bk. k83 One woman claimed that with a peeler, she could core, peel, and slice a bushel of apples in fifty-four minutes. 1991 Wine Spectator 15 May 45/2 Using a paring knife or vegetable peeler, pare the zest from the lemon. 3. †a. A person who undresses; spec. a boxer who strips for a fight. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer buffeter1483 pugil1646 cuffer1662 boxer1672 pugilistc1740 setter-to1810 miller1812 sparrer1814 pet1825 pugilistic1827 slogger1829 fist-mate1834 peeler1852 pug1858 scrapper1874 slugger1877 slogster1881 basher1882 fisticuffer1888 ring man1899 ringster1902 pucker1919 1852 W. G. Simms As Good as Comedy iv. 56 ‘I know you hain't got the teeth to raise the skin of that varmint.’ ‘Hain't I, then? Just you try it, then,..and see if I ain't a peeler.’ ‘Will you peel?’ ‘Won't I, then?’ ‘Jake, my boy, I've come here to-day to strip the skin off you altogether.’ b. Chiefly North American. A striptease artist; a stripper. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist teaser1929 stripper1930 strip-teaser1930 strippeuse1939 ecdysiast1940 strip-teaseuse1941 peeler1942 stripteuse1942 strip-tease artist1947 exotic1954 split beaver1972 1942 ATS 574 ‘Strip teaser’..peeler. 1955 Variety 9 Mar. 62/4 Chicago, for years a stripper's haven, is now seriously beset by a dearth of peelers. 1962 Herald-Press (St. Joseph, Mich.) 6 Feb. 14/2 A..montage which shows her developing from a shy, hesitant peeler to the strutting, insinuating Gypsy [Rose Lee], confident of each and every movement. 2000 Standard (Ont., Canada) (Nexis) 29 July f3 Shirley is a professional peeler by trade and she was recently fired by a Brantford strip joint claiming she's too old to attract a crowd. 4. A crab or crayfish when it casts its shell. Also more fully peeler crab. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > crabs at particular stage soft crab1737 softshell crab1806 megalopa1815 buster1855 megalops1855 shedder-crab1860 peeler1866 shedder1872 prawn-stage1896 fat crab1905 1852 Zoologist 10 3682 It [sc. common shore crab] is occasionally employed as bait, particularly the ‘peelarts’, as those that have just cast their shell are called.] 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) Addit. 229 Peeler, the Shore-crab when casting its shell. 1883 Cent. Mag. July 378/2 Large craw-fish, which were about to shed their outer cases, or shells, and which for this reason are called ‘shedders’, or ‘Peelers’. 1911 C. O. Minchin Sea-fishing xvii. 245 When the cold outer shell has cracked and is ready to fall, and the new soft shell beneath is growing to replace it, the crab is called a ‘peeler’, and is then in the best condition for bait. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 27 July 9/8 Hook-and-line fishermen can scarcely buy the popular peeler crab bait for fishing. 1976 Sc. Daily Express 24 Dec. 12/6 For the smaller fish, rag and lugworm, soft peeler crab and strips of herring or mackerel are usually acceptable. 1995 Chesapeake Bay Mag. Oct. 96/3 We stopped briefly at a little fyke (weir) net system Donnie had set up along the creek to catch peeler crabs, our bait. 5. In full peeler log. The trunk of a tree, esp. a softwood tree, suitable for the manufacture of veneer by the use of a rotary lathe, which peels thin sheets of wood from the log. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > undressed trunk or log > types of butt log1779 upper1877 stave bolt1878 sinker1884 teak log1889 peeler1935 1935 Timberman Dec. 3/2 Some studies should be undertaken at once to determine the economic limits of the Douglas fir peelers... The log scarcity has brought forth the Veneer specialist, who makes a business of producing and preparing peeler logs for the plywood trade. 1948 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 42 33 Poplar plywood could be manufactured if more peeler logs were grown. 1973 Nature West Coast 62 Wood [of grand fir] is used for pulp, lumber and peelers (core stock for plywood). 2003 Mercury (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 July 11 Mr Gordon said the peeler logs were exported as part of veneer peeling trials to establish markets for Tasmanian eucalypt in China and Korea. III. Other senses. †6. U.S. colloquial. a. An exceptional or noteworthy example of something; esp. a very violent storm. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. xv. 212 It's a peeler without, I can tell you, good woman. 1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major 147 Says he, ‘Major, that's a sharp piece you are firin with there.’ ‘It's a peeler,’ says I. 1843 A. S. Stephens High Life in N.Y. I. 214 Sam's fust book was a peeler, and a credit to the family. 1861 Entertaining Things I. 197 The gale..was a steady hard blow, what sailors call a peeler. 1880 J. Fiske Let. 24 July (1940) 437 We made a plan to send you a huge letter—such as I call ‘one of my old peelers’—and give you a more or less detailed account of all the goings-on since the May-day. b. A person of extraordinary or unusual qualities; a lively and energetic person; a person with exceptional aptitude or enthusiasm for an activity. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing ii. 40 He's a real peeler for speaking, and sometimes he pours out his voice so as to make me jump right up on my feet. 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing lxv. 218 Them are Pennsylvany chaps are real pealers for electing folks when they take hold. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 82 I was talking with a rare peeler of a gal. 1881 W. M. Thayer From Log Cabin to White House xiii. 207 He's a peeler for work, too; ain't afraid to dirty hisself. 1883 I. Flagg Versicles 47 On terra firm I'm just a roarin' peeler! 7. U.S. slang. A cowboy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > keeper of cattle > tender of cattle cowman1593 cowboy1623 cow-man1677 cowgirl1753 stockman1806 cowboy1825 cowboy1849 fogger1858 cow-woman1870 cattleman1878 cow-girl1884 tackman1885 cow-hand1886 peeler1894 rawhider1908 stock-boy1937 1894 O. Wister Out West: Jrnls. & Lett. (1958) 198 Peeler, cowpuncher. 1914 ‘B. M. Bower’ Flying U Ranch 7 This is Mr. Mig-u-ell Rapponi, boys—a peeler straight from the Golden Gate. 1937 Dial. Notes 6 618 Used in its strictest sense, the peeler refers to the cowpuncher who rides into the herd and ‘cuts’ out the horse desired. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) ii. 103 Was your old daddy a certified peeler? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). peelern.² Brit. /ˈpiːlə/, U.S. /ˈpilər/ Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. English regional (Kent). A crowbar; a round iron bar used for making holes in the ground for hop-poles or wattles. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > implement for making holes in the ground pitch1589 pitcher1712 peeler1796 post auger1819 pitching-bar1879 soil sampler1902 soil auger1927 1796 J. Boys Gen. View Agric. Kent (new ed.) 50 A large iron peeler to make holes in the land for the [hop] poles, costs 6^s. or 7^s. 1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) I. 45 Hop-peeler.—The peeler is made use of for forming holes for the hop-poles. 1861 G. Dowker in Geologist 4 213 After much labour with a large peeler on the boring-irons, a small hole was made which still resisted the passage of the augur. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 115 Peeler n., a round iron bar, used for making the holes into which hop-poles or wattles are placed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). peelern.³ Brit. /ˈpiːlə/, U.S. /ˈpilər/, Irish English /ˈpiːlər/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Peel , -er suffix¹. Etymology: < the name of Sir Robert Peel (1788–1850), British politician and prime minister (1834–5, 1841–6), founder of the Conservative Party and the Irish constabulary, and (as Home Secretary) responsible for setting up the London police force in 1829 + -er suffix¹. Compare later bobby n. 1. colloquial (originally British and Irish English). Now chiefly archaic and historical. Originally: a member of the Irish constabulary. Later: (more gen.) a police officer; spec. a member of the original London Metropolitan force. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- 1816 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 34 854 He was assured, that no good whatever was done by what, in compliment to the right hon. gentleman, were called ‘the peelers’. 1818 R. Peel Let. to Gregory 14 Apr. We must not make the Peelers unpopular, by maintaining them against the declared and unequivocal sense of the county in which they act. 1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 25 569 The ‘Peelers’ (by which significant term the whole constabulary force appointed under Mr. Goulburn's bill, as well as those by Mr. Peel's act, are known in the vernacular). 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xiv. 206 He's gone for a peeler and a search warrant to break open the door. 1871 L. H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 515 There is a sort of traditional hostility between the students and the ‘peelers’—as the city police are always called. 1917 S. O'Kelly Waysiders 22 It is not for the Peelers to put the honest man on one side and the thief on the other. 1929 Bookman Nov. 264/1 ‘What is it, Fra Diavolo?’ he asked... ‘A peeler, fellow, a sleuth-hound.’ 1954 N. Coward London at Night in B. Day N. Coward: Compl. Lyrics (1998) 289/2 Certainly ‘Peelers’ If only they're viewed sentimentally Have a reassuring charm Quite unlike the French Gendarme. 1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman ix. 78 The close-fitting jackets have the effect of making portly peelers look portlier. 1993 Guardian 24 Feb. ii. 10/3 The film was too far-fetched—though I have seen people hand-braking in front of the Peelers [sc. the Royal Ulster Constabulary]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1425n.²1796n.³1816
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