A pointed stake or post; spec. one of a number of heavy wooden or metal posts or beams, pointed or sharpened at the lower end and driven vertically…
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| 释义 | society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > tower or fortified house > peel (8) pilelOE A pointed stake or post; spec. one of a number of heavy wooden or metal posts or beams, pointed or sharpened at the lower end and driven vertically… pilea1513 Applied spec. to the Peels on the Scottish border; = peel, n.2 4. Obsolete. peel house1586 (a) a fortified dwelling built within a palisade; (b) = sense 4. pale1596 Scottish. = peel, n.2 4. Obsolete. rare. peel1726 A small fortified (or sometimes moated) tower or dwelling of a type built chiefly in the 16th cent. in the border counties of England and… border-house1792 a Border tower, a peel. peel tower1851 = sense 4. watch-peel1882 (see peel, n.1 3). |
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