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verb piːlpil 1with object Remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit, vegetable, or prawn) she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care Example sentencesExamples - Alternatively, slice off the skin as if you were peeling an apple in a spiral.
- To peel prawns, twist off their heads and pull off the ‘legs’.
- He's done every job there from cleaning the kitchen and sweeping floors to peeling potatoes, managing the storeroom and cooking.
- ‘We try to use as many fresh ingredients as possible and cooks are busy in the morning peeling potatoes and carrots for that day's menu,’ said Mr Marshall.
- As the potatoes are cooking, peel the onion, cut it in half and then into thick slices.
- All the workers had an interesting life story that she or he shares while cutting carrots or peeling potatoes.
- If you're eating off the market, peel vegetables and fruit.
- His mother was in the kitchen, peeling potatoes.
- ‘We don't believe that the onus should be on the consumer to wash and peel fruit and vegetables to remove pesticides,’ a spokeswoman said.
- I peeled the orange quickly wondering how she got the fruit.
- Cook some broth, peel the potatoes and cut into slices.
- While the bird is colouring in the butter you can peel the garlic, trim and cut the celery into short lengths.
- He was sitting on the quay at a turn in the canal, peeling an orange, dropping bits of skin into the water.
- We girls had to help from the time we were real small, with the cooking, peeling potatoes, setting the table and all that.
- So I watched spotty boys peel potatoes and old guys scoop haddock so tenderly from the deep fryer.
- As a child, it was always a great treat to visit her in the cafe and help her: chopping vegetables, peeling potatoes, mixing ice cream.
- While the squash is roasting, peel the onions and slice them finely.
- I spent the day peeling onions and potatoes, chopping carrots, sweeping, and helping with the laundry.
- They don't have the equipment to peel the carrots and potatoes, and there are nowhere near enough ovens.
- Primary prevention consists of hand washing, drinking only safe water, peeling all fruits and vegetables, and eating well-cooked foods.
Synonyms pare, skin, take the skin/rind off, strip, shave, trim, flay hull, shell, husk, shuck technical decorticate - 1.1 Remove (the outer covering or skin) from a fruit or vegetable.
peel off the skins and thickly slice the potatoes Example sentencesExamples - He peeled the rough skin from the bulb and raised it to his mouth.
- Here's an easy way to peel the parchment skin from garlic: Place the clove on a chopping block and slice off the root end.
- After the outer skin is peeled, the sponges (as the fruits now resemble) are soaked in a bath of one part bleach to three parts water.
- The skins were peeled from frozen berries to avoid mixing with pulp.
- He cuts small pieces of bamboo, then peels the skin and creates each letter for the words.
- Small, firm, and with a sweet flesh, but its thick skin should be peeled before use.
- The old method of preparing potato juice was to cut the potato into thin slices without peeling the skin and place overnight in a large glass filled with cold water.
- As I investigated it, it was like peeling the skin of an onion.
- Halve the papaya, scoop out the seeds, peel the flesh then chop roughly.
- If the skin is thin and unwaxed, you do not need to peel the skin from the cucumber.
- I flinched even more than when she was peeling skin off with a sharp tool.
- 1.2no object (of a fruit or vegetable) have a skin that can be removed.
Example sentencesExamples - The fruit peels easily and has a nice balance of tang and sugar.
2peel something offwith object Remove a thin outer covering or part. I peeled off the tissue paper Example sentencesExamples - It is then laid on a table where the acrylics are peeled away from the paper.
- As the adhesive is peeled away, each fibril is pulled into tension until it decoheres as shown in Figure 4.
- If using fresh tomatoes, plunge them into boiling water for 30 seconds, then pop in cold water, enabling you to peel the skins away.
- When they are cool enough to handle, peel the skin away from the flesh and shred the flesh into rough strips.
- He peeled a couple of bills from his fat, just-got-paid billfold and waved it towards the bartender.
- Small round holes were punched on it in a gridlike pattern before the emulsion was peeled away from its paper backing.
- He watched Trudy as she carefully peeled the coarse linen away and rolled it up like a map.
- To avoid this, keep the wings and windshields covered when the plane is at rest so that you can simply peel them away when you're ready to fly.
- Tomorrow, weather permitting, the excess silicon will be peeled away and the new glass given a thorough polish.
- Many are believed still to be alive as their skins are peeled away.
Synonyms trim (off), peel off, pare, strip (off), shave (off), remove, take off, flay technical excoriate - 2.1peel something off Remove an item of clothing.
Suzy peeled off her white pullover Example sentencesExamples - The 28-year old skids to a halt, undoes her safety belt and leaps athletically from the car, slowly peeling off her driving gloves.
- Anne growled as she sat up on her bed and began peeling her gloves off, throwing them carelessly to one side.
- The cotton linen of his robe stuck to his skin and I saw his grimace when I peeled it off of him, discarding the clothing in a pile on the floor.
- She peeled it off, and threw it in a heap on one of the expensive wooden chairs.
- I peeled my shorts off and threw them in my car, and then ran to the water holding my surfboard.
- He came out in a white chef's coat and shorts, but quickly peeled the jacket off to reveal a black and white silk shirt, much more in keeping with the Miami locale.
- She didn't say anything when he unwound her arms from around him and pulled her shirt over her head, peeled her underwear off and stuck her under the running water.
- Higgins promises to return the next day and leaves the room; she peels off her surgical garments and tosses them in a waste bin.
- Then slowly, she grabbed the hem of her shirt and peeled it off of her sweaty skin, exposing a white bra with little yellow/green squares.
- ‘I'm so hot and sweaty having walked all the way in from home’ she explains as she peels off her jacket.
Synonyms take off, strip off, cast off, remove, discard, throw off
3no object (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces. Example sentencesExamples - Today, its exquisite towering antique stained glass windows are broken and covered in layers of dust, its walls are cracked and peeling and the weak wooden balcony cannot support a choir anymore.
- In the other places along the wall it was peeling so much she could see the original color of black.
- The walls were not peeling, the furniture wasn't broken, and the floor and ceiling had obviously been fixed by the different shades of wood.
- Its walls were peeling and it had graffiti all over it, but it was shelter, and it would be better than the streets.
- The long hallway was much like the first floor had been: everything covered in dust, walls peeling, ceilings cracked, and missing floorboards.
- However, the coatings often don't adhere well to the charged surfaces of metals, so they're prone to peeling and flaking.
- As it peels, paint chips are loosened and can be ingested by children.
- The walls are peeling and the windows are broken and I smell what smells like burning hair.
- Likewise, with a wall prone to damp, raw brick can be easier to maintain, avoiding the problems of paint or paper peeling, or plasterwork buckling.
- It is a multi-stemmed specimen with glossy amber or golden brown bark that peels in thin strips.
- Watered-down paint soaks into the porous concrete so it won't flake or peel like surface paint does.
- The paper of the wall was peeling; the plaster from the moisture of the weather and the old heritage of the building itself.
- Cargo could not see the logic in his friend's words; they were in an empty, shabby, room with walls that were peeling almost as much as the fence outside.
- The grain is flat or tangential, and the exterior layers are peeling.
- Their red paint is peeling, as is that on most of the house.
- Our kitchen had blue shiny tiles on the floor, and plain white wallpaper peeling on the walls.
- The War Museum was a square building, whose white paint was peeling and chipping off around the edges.
- The huts were basic, their green paint peeling, and their beds sagging, but the sheets were clean, the sun shining and the fresh mountain air tinged with the smoke of camp fires was invigorating.
- Mine looks slightly different: the paint is peeling, the viewpoint is higher.
- The ceiling tiles are waterlogged, the lino is cracked and the walls are peeling.
Synonyms flake (off), peel off, come off in layers/strips blister technical exfoliate, desquamate - 3.1with adverbial (of an outer layer) come off in strips or small pieces.
if it's paper you're washing, make sure it won't peel off if it gets damp paint was peeling from the shopfronts Example sentencesExamples - A carpet devoid of patterns covered the steps, a dark green wallpaper attempting to cover the walls but peeling away as well.
- Wallpaper was nearly peeling down the walls, curled with age.
- Soot-stained paint peeled in great strips from rickety frame buildings, pocked with broken windows that wore rusty, torn screens.
- But the years have taken their toll, with paint peeling away, rust setting in and parts going missing.
- Throughout the year, curling strips of the cinnamon-red outer bark peel off to reveal the paler young bark beneath.
- He washes his hands repeatedly till the skin starts peeling off.
- There are cracks spreading in the concrete balconies, paint peeling from the building, and its signs are in disrepair.
- Striking copper coloured bark on the stems and trunk peels off in large pieces to reveal lighter new bark below making it irresistible to stop and touch.
- After six hours working there the skin was peeling off the palms of your hands.
noun piːlpil 1mass noun The outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable. Example sentencesExamples - Place all dried fruits, grated apple, mixed peel, cherries, rinds and juices into a large mixing bowl and pour over the brandy/rum and essences.
- For the fruits, I used candied bitter orange peels, green raisins, and dried apricots, figs (black and white), and peach.
- Sift flour, salt and spice, and add to mixture alternately with dried fruit, mixed peel and zest of lemon.
- She pulled a piece of peel away and tossed it at Victor.
- The peel of the fruit will darken in the refrigerator but the banana inside will remain firm and delicious.
- By rubbing banana peels over your face, you can soften your skin while protecting it from the sun as well.
- The pelting water bothers them, so they migrate to the dried fruit peel in the trashcan.
- You shake off bits of fruit peel from your shoe and march off, victorious.
- Sugar or honey should be added to taste, and fruit peel can impart bitterness.
- This is a quality vodka that delivers the aroma and flavour of the juice rather than the harsher peel from the fruit (in this case, lemons).
- The government now says it's OK to eat fruit peel.
- Grate the apple over the bread, add the dried fruit and peel, stir in the sugar, marmalade, flour, eggs and spices.
- Shortly before you are ready to serve, cut away the pith and peel of the remaining four oranges.
- I began stapling the banana peels to paper rectangles, then gluing the rectangles to the jacket.
- For example, use the zest - the outermost layer of a citrus fruit's peel - from lemons or limes to liven up your salads and soups.
- The fruit's peel and pit are also of medical use.
- What next, said the Herald, oranges with no peel, potatoes without jackets?
- Combine the fruit peels with the vodka in a jar, cover and let stand for 1 week.
- When I grew up, we were told that our relatives in mainland China had only banana peels to eat.
- Marmalades are soft fruit jellies with small pieces of fruit or citrus peel evenly suspended in a transparent jelly.
Synonyms rind, skin, covering, zest hull, pod, crust, shuck, capsule, outer layer technical epicarp, pericarp, exocarp rare integument 2An act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion. Example sentencesExamples - At-home body peels also can keep skin even-toned.
- The surgeon or dermatologist begins the peel by cleansing the skin to remove all oils, dirt and soap traces.
- Crucially, the peel strips away some of the skin's ability to protect itself against the sun.
- Chemical peels smooth out rough skin and minimize fine lines.
- It's also possible to renew sun-damaged areas with a peel or microdermabrasion, which lifts surface skin layers.
- Combination and normal skin types should use a glycolic peel every 1-2 weeks.
- Laser resurfacing uses an ultrapulse laser to scan skin layers deeper than a chemical peel.
- A skin peel is a good general treatment for the face.
- For faster fading, your dermatologist may prescribe a stronger lightener, chemical peel, laser treatment or even a combination of the three.
- Collagen injection followed laser hair removal, microdermabrasion and chemical peel in the non-surgical overall category.
- Would a peel help reduce the risk of skin cancer?
- Two years after the peel, her skin looked like an elderly woman's, mottled with brown and red blotches.
- She obviously looks after her skin, and she may even have had a glycolic peel to remove dull cells and reveal her healthy, radiant skin.
Phrasal Verbs Leave a formation or group by veering away. the pace was much too hot for Beris, and he peeled off after five laps Example sentencesExamples - Slowly I get up to the lights, then across them, and the traffic is clearing, as the town centre road peels off, then the next road.
- They marched out in regular formation, peeling off two by two at each main street to patrol their beats on foot.
- As they stare in horror at the old house, the cries suddenly cease and the stoic hero peels off, his tires squealing on the gravel country road.
- The two Interceptors split their formation and peeled off in different headings.
- Now the second swimmer sprints for 65 strokes, then peels off for the third swimmer's lead.
- He leads the charge, towing his teammates round for a lap; his team mate takes over as he peels off.
- You can hear the rush of wings and the odd cry, but mainly it's a silent movement with birds joining in the aerial display, or peeling off in formation.
- Then, for your second session, the pace car peels off, and you're free to push the car as fast as you want to go.
he peeled out down the street Example sentencesExamples - Cars are heard revving their engines and peeling out of the parking lot.
- Quickly she slid behind the wheel and peeled out, racing toward Bulgaria.
- Justin revved the engine and quickly shifted, he peeled out as hard as he could.
- I got in my car, shut the door, and waved bye before peeling out.
- They are peeling out and roaring up and down the street.
- Just then, I heard the sound of Kate peeling out of the driveway.
- He peeled out of the lot, tires squealing, kicking up gravel into the caterwauling clerk's face.
- I roll my eyes as Keith peels out of the parking lot.
- Sullivan gets in his car, and peels out of the garage.
- Successful, she pulled it on, shut the door, and peeled out of the drive, on accident of course.
Derivatives adjective The tape is protected by a peelable paper cover. Example sentencesExamples - Whether a particular wallpaper is strippable, peelable, washable and so on is shown in the sample book or on the label of the wallpaper bolt.
- ‘Significant design effort went into the heat-seal station to ensure uniformity of the peelable seals,’ Young notes.
- Price stickers should be small, on the back of the album and be of the peelable, non-goo, variety.
- They answer to the definition of a berry as a simple, fleshy fruit, without internal divisions, enclosing seeds (or, exceptionally, a single seed), and not having a separate, peelable skin.
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'to plunder'): variant of dialect pill, from Latin pilare 'to strip hair from', from pilus 'hair'. The differentiation of peel and pill may have been by association with the French verbs peler 'to peel' and piller 'to pillage'. Rhymes allele, anele, anneal, appeal, Bastille, Beale, Castile, chenille, cochineal, cockatiel, conceal, congeal, creel, deal, eel, Emile, feel, freewheel, genteel, Guayaquil, heal, heel, he'll, keel, Kiel, kneel, leal, Lille, Lucille, manchineel, meal, misdeal, Neil, O'Neill, ordeal, peal, reel, schlemiel, seal, seel, she'll, spiel, squeal, steal, steel, Steele, teal, underseal, veal, weal, we'll, wheel, zeal noun piːlpil A flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven. Example sentencesExamples - Generously dust a peel or back of a sheet pan with cornmeal and very gently transfer the loaves to the peel or pan.
- I assume that meant that he was making peels, long-handled wooden tools used by bakers to load and unload bread from ovens.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French pele, from Latin pala, from the base of pangere 'fasten'. peel3(also pele, peel tower) noun piːlpil A small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland. Example sentencesExamples - It was not a castle, did not need moats or peel towers, and had no fortifications, unless the owner in the late 18th cent. had a taste for mock Gothic and battlements.
- Since 1966, when together with his brother he sold the island of Eigg, his base was a peel tower in Dumfriesshire.
- The Corbridge pele, built of reused Roman stonework, lies on the edge of the churchyard and was the vicar's house.
- As a boy, he had dreamt once that he lived in the peel tower at the foot of Strangford Lough.
- Heading towards the Borders, at Bemersyde, the garden of the 16th century peel tower to which a mansion house was added in the 17th century, was laid out by Field Marshal Earl Haig.
Origin Probably short for synonymous peel-house: peel from Anglo-Norman French pel 'stake, palisade', from Latin palus 'stake'. verb piːlpil [with object]Croquet Send (another player's ball) through a hoop. the better players are capable of peeling a ball through two or three hoops
Origin Late 19th century: from the name of Walter H. Peel, founder of the All England Croquet Association, a leading exponent of the practice. verbpēlpil 1with object Remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit, vegetable, or shrimp) she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care Example sentencesExamples - He was sitting on the quay at a turn in the canal, peeling an orange, dropping bits of skin into the water.
- So I watched spotty boys peel potatoes and old guys scoop haddock so tenderly from the deep fryer.
- ‘We don't believe that the onus should be on the consumer to wash and peel fruit and vegetables to remove pesticides,’ a spokeswoman said.
- While the bird is colouring in the butter you can peel the garlic, trim and cut the celery into short lengths.
- While the squash is roasting, peel the onions and slice them finely.
- Primary prevention consists of hand washing, drinking only safe water, peeling all fruits and vegetables, and eating well-cooked foods.
- I peeled the orange quickly wondering how she got the fruit.
- As the potatoes are cooking, peel the onion, cut it in half and then into thick slices.
- He's done every job there from cleaning the kitchen and sweeping floors to peeling potatoes, managing the storeroom and cooking.
- ‘We try to use as many fresh ingredients as possible and cooks are busy in the morning peeling potatoes and carrots for that day's menu,’ said Mr Marshall.
- They don't have the equipment to peel the carrots and potatoes, and there are nowhere near enough ovens.
- If you're eating off the market, peel vegetables and fruit.
- To peel prawns, twist off their heads and pull off the ‘legs’.
- We girls had to help from the time we were real small, with the cooking, peeling potatoes, setting the table and all that.
- I spent the day peeling onions and potatoes, chopping carrots, sweeping, and helping with the laundry.
- His mother was in the kitchen, peeling potatoes.
- All the workers had an interesting life story that she or he shares while cutting carrots or peeling potatoes.
- Alternatively, slice off the skin as if you were peeling an apple in a spiral.
- Cook some broth, peel the potatoes and cut into slices.
- As a child, it was always a great treat to visit her in the cafe and help her: chopping vegetables, peeling potatoes, mixing ice cream.
Synonyms pare, skin, take the rind off, take the skin off, strip, shave, trim, flay - 1.1 Remove (the outer covering or skin) from a fruit or vegetable.
peel off the skins and thickly slice the potatoes Example sentencesExamples - As I investigated it, it was like peeling the skin of an onion.
- Halve the papaya, scoop out the seeds, peel the flesh then chop roughly.
- He peeled the rough skin from the bulb and raised it to his mouth.
- If the skin is thin and unwaxed, you do not need to peel the skin from the cucumber.
- The skins were peeled from frozen berries to avoid mixing with pulp.
- He cuts small pieces of bamboo, then peels the skin and creates each letter for the words.
- I flinched even more than when she was peeling skin off with a sharp tool.
- After the outer skin is peeled, the sponges (as the fruits now resemble) are soaked in a bath of one part bleach to three parts water.
- Small, firm, and with a sweet flesh, but its thick skin should be peeled before use.
- Here's an easy way to peel the parchment skin from garlic: Place the clove on a chopping block and slice off the root end.
- The old method of preparing potato juice was to cut the potato into thin slices without peeling the skin and place overnight in a large glass filled with cold water.
- 1.2no object (of a fruit or vegetable) have a skin that can be removed.
Example sentencesExamples - The fruit peels easily and has a nice balance of tang and sugar.
2peel something offwith object Remove or separate a thin covering or part from the outside or surface of something. carefully peel away the wax paper Example sentencesExamples - Many are believed still to be alive as their skins are peeled away.
- As the adhesive is peeled away, each fibril is pulled into tension until it decoheres as shown in Figure 4.
- To avoid this, keep the wings and windshields covered when the plane is at rest so that you can simply peel them away when you're ready to fly.
- When they are cool enough to handle, peel the skin away from the flesh and shred the flesh into rough strips.
- He peeled a couple of bills from his fat, just-got-paid billfold and waved it towards the bartender.
- Tomorrow, weather permitting, the excess silicon will be peeled away and the new glass given a thorough polish.
- If using fresh tomatoes, plunge them into boiling water for 30 seconds, then pop in cold water, enabling you to peel the skins away.
- He watched Trudy as she carefully peeled the coarse linen away and rolled it up like a map.
- Small round holes were punched on it in a gridlike pattern before the emulsion was peeled away from its paper backing.
- It is then laid on a table where the acrylics are peeled away from the paper.
Synonyms trim, trim off, peel off, pare, strip, strip off, shave, shave off, remove, take off, flay - 2.1peel something off Remove an item of clothing.
Suzy peeled off her white pullover Example sentencesExamples - He came out in a white chef's coat and shorts, but quickly peeled the jacket off to reveal a black and white silk shirt, much more in keeping with the Miami locale.
- ‘I'm so hot and sweaty having walked all the way in from home’ she explains as she peels off her jacket.
- Higgins promises to return the next day and leaves the room; she peels off her surgical garments and tosses them in a waste bin.
- The 28-year old skids to a halt, undoes her safety belt and leaps athletically from the car, slowly peeling off her driving gloves.
- She peeled it off, and threw it in a heap on one of the expensive wooden chairs.
- She didn't say anything when he unwound her arms from around him and pulled her shirt over her head, peeled her underwear off and stuck her under the running water.
- The cotton linen of his robe stuck to his skin and I saw his grimace when I peeled it off of him, discarding the clothing in a pile on the floor.
- I peeled my shorts off and threw them in my car, and then ran to the water holding my surfboard.
- Anne growled as she sat up on her bed and began peeling her gloves off, throwing them carelessly to one side.
- Then slowly, she grabbed the hem of her shirt and peeled it off of her sweaty skin, exposing a white bra with little yellow/green squares.
Synonyms take off, strip off, cast off, remove, discard, throw off
3no object (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces. Example sentencesExamples - The huts were basic, their green paint peeling, and their beds sagging, but the sheets were clean, the sun shining and the fresh mountain air tinged with the smoke of camp fires was invigorating.
- It is a multi-stemmed specimen with glossy amber or golden brown bark that peels in thin strips.
- The War Museum was a square building, whose white paint was peeling and chipping off around the edges.
- Likewise, with a wall prone to damp, raw brick can be easier to maintain, avoiding the problems of paint or paper peeling, or plasterwork buckling.
- Mine looks slightly different: the paint is peeling, the viewpoint is higher.
- Its walls were peeling and it had graffiti all over it, but it was shelter, and it would be better than the streets.
- The grain is flat or tangential, and the exterior layers are peeling.
- The ceiling tiles are waterlogged, the lino is cracked and the walls are peeling.
- Their red paint is peeling, as is that on most of the house.
- The paper of the wall was peeling; the plaster from the moisture of the weather and the old heritage of the building itself.
- The walls were not peeling, the furniture wasn't broken, and the floor and ceiling had obviously been fixed by the different shades of wood.
- However, the coatings often don't adhere well to the charged surfaces of metals, so they're prone to peeling and flaking.
- Our kitchen had blue shiny tiles on the floor, and plain white wallpaper peeling on the walls.
- As it peels, paint chips are loosened and can be ingested by children.
- Watered-down paint soaks into the porous concrete so it won't flake or peel like surface paint does.
- Today, its exquisite towering antique stained glass windows are broken and covered in layers of dust, its walls are cracked and peeling and the weak wooden balcony cannot support a choir anymore.
- Cargo could not see the logic in his friend's words; they were in an empty, shabby, room with walls that were peeling almost as much as the fence outside.
- In the other places along the wall it was peeling so much she could see the original color of black.
- The long hallway was much like the first floor had been: everything covered in dust, walls peeling, ceilings cracked, and missing floorboards.
- The walls are peeling and the windows are broken and I smell what smells like burning hair.
Synonyms flake, flake off, peel off, come off in layers, come off in strips - 3.1with adverbial (of an outer layer or covering) come off, especially in strips or small pieces.
Example sentencesExamples - After six hours working there the skin was peeling off the palms of your hands.
- There are cracks spreading in the concrete balconies, paint peeling from the building, and its signs are in disrepair.
- Soot-stained paint peeled in great strips from rickety frame buildings, pocked with broken windows that wore rusty, torn screens.
- Striking copper coloured bark on the stems and trunk peels off in large pieces to reveal lighter new bark below making it irresistible to stop and touch.
- He washes his hands repeatedly till the skin starts peeling off.
- But the years have taken their toll, with paint peeling away, rust setting in and parts going missing.
- Throughout the year, curling strips of the cinnamon-red outer bark peel off to reveal the paler young bark beneath.
- A carpet devoid of patterns covered the steps, a dark green wallpaper attempting to cover the walls but peeling away as well.
- Wallpaper was nearly peeling down the walls, curled with age.
nounpēlpil The outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable. Example sentencesExamples - The peel of the fruit will darken in the refrigerator but the banana inside will remain firm and delicious.
- Sugar or honey should be added to taste, and fruit peel can impart bitterness.
- The pelting water bothers them, so they migrate to the dried fruit peel in the trashcan.
- You shake off bits of fruit peel from your shoe and march off, victorious.
- Place all dried fruits, grated apple, mixed peel, cherries, rinds and juices into a large mixing bowl and pour over the brandy/rum and essences.
- Marmalades are soft fruit jellies with small pieces of fruit or citrus peel evenly suspended in a transparent jelly.
- She pulled a piece of peel away and tossed it at Victor.
- What next, said the Herald, oranges with no peel, potatoes without jackets?
- By rubbing banana peels over your face, you can soften your skin while protecting it from the sun as well.
- For example, use the zest - the outermost layer of a citrus fruit's peel - from lemons or limes to liven up your salads and soups.
- The fruit's peel and pit are also of medical use.
- Sift flour, salt and spice, and add to mixture alternately with dried fruit, mixed peel and zest of lemon.
- Shortly before you are ready to serve, cut away the pith and peel of the remaining four oranges.
- Combine the fruit peels with the vodka in a jar, cover and let stand for 1 week.
- The government now says it's OK to eat fruit peel.
- Grate the apple over the bread, add the dried fruit and peel, stir in the sugar, marmalade, flour, eggs and spices.
- When I grew up, we were told that our relatives in mainland China had only banana peels to eat.
- This is a quality vodka that delivers the aroma and flavour of the juice rather than the harsher peel from the fruit (in this case, lemons).
- I began stapling the banana peels to paper rectangles, then gluing the rectangles to the jacket.
- For the fruits, I used candied bitter orange peels, green raisins, and dried apricots, figs (black and white), and peach.
Synonyms rind, skin, covering, zest
Phrasal Verbs (of a member of a formation, especially a flying formation) leave the formation by veering away to one side. the pace was much too hot for Beris, and he peeled off after five laps Example sentencesExamples - As they stare in horror at the old house, the cries suddenly cease and the stoic hero peels off, his tires squealing on the gravel country road.
- The two Interceptors split their formation and peeled off in different headings.
- He leads the charge, towing his teammates round for a lap; his team mate takes over as he peels off.
- You can hear the rush of wings and the odd cry, but mainly it's a silent movement with birds joining in the aerial display, or peeling off in formation.
- Now the second swimmer sprints for 65 strokes, then peels off for the third swimmer's lead.
- Then, for your second session, the pace car peels off, and you're free to push the car as fast as you want to go.
- Slowly I get up to the lights, then across them, and the traffic is clearing, as the town centre road peels off, then the next road.
- They marched out in regular formation, peeling off two by two at each main street to patrol their beats on foot.
he peeled out down the street Example sentencesExamples - Quickly she slid behind the wheel and peeled out, racing toward Bulgaria.
- Sullivan gets in his car, and peels out of the garage.
- Just then, I heard the sound of Kate peeling out of the driveway.
- Justin revved the engine and quickly shifted, he peeled out as hard as he could.
- I roll my eyes as Keith peels out of the parking lot.
- They are peeling out and roaring up and down the street.
- Cars are heard revving their engines and peeling out of the parking lot.
- Successful, she pulled it on, shut the door, and peeled out of the drive, on accident of course.
- He peeled out of the lot, tires squealing, kicking up gravel into the caterwauling clerk's face.
- I got in my car, shut the door, and waved bye before peeling out.
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): variant of dialect pill, from Latin pilare ‘to strip hair from’, from pilus ‘hair’. The differentiation of peel and pill may have been by association with the French verbs peler ‘to peel’ and piller ‘to pillage’. nounpilpēl A flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven. Example sentencesExamples - Generously dust a peel or back of a sheet pan with cornmeal and very gently transfer the loaves to the peel or pan.
- I assume that meant that he was making peels, long-handled wooden tools used by bakers to load and unload bread from ovens.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French pele, from Latin pala, from the base of pangere ‘fasten’. peel3(also peel tower, pele) nounpilpēl A small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland. Example sentencesExamples - The Corbridge pele, built of reused Roman stonework, lies on the edge of the churchyard and was the vicar's house.
- As a boy, he had dreamt once that he lived in the peel tower at the foot of Strangford Lough.
- It was not a castle, did not need moats or peel towers, and had no fortifications, unless the owner in the late 18th cent. had a taste for mock Gothic and battlements.
- Heading towards the Borders, at Bemersyde, the garden of the 16th century peel tower to which a mansion house was added in the 17th century, was laid out by Field Marshal Earl Haig.
- Since 1966, when together with his brother he sold the island of Eigg, his base was a peel tower in Dumfriesshire.
Origin Probably short for synonymous peel-house: peel from Anglo-Norman French pel ‘stake, palisade’, from Latin palus ‘stake’. verbpēlpil [with object]Croquet Send (another player's ball) through a wicket. the better players are capable of peeling a ball through two or three wickets
Origin Late 19th century: from the name of Walter H. Peel, founder of the All England Croquet Association, a leading exponent of the practice. |