peel¹ /pēl/

1. To strip off the skin, bark, or other covering from
2. To strip (eg skin or other covering layer) off
3. To pill, pillage, plunder (obsolete)

1. To come off like skin
2. To lose or shed the skin
3. To undress (informal; often with off)

1. Rind, esp that of oranges, lemons, etc, in the natural state or candied
2. A cosmetic treatment in which a layer of facial skin is removed

peeled adjective

1. Pillaged
2. Bald
3. Tonsured
4. Stripped of skin, rind, or bark

peelˈer noun

1. A person who peels
2. A plunderer
3. A plant that impoverishes the soil
4. An instrument or machine for peeling or decorticating

peelˈing noun

1. The act of stripping
2. A piece, strip, or shred stripped off
3. The removing of the layers of a paper overlay, to get a lighter impression (printing)

peel-and-eatˈ noun (Scot)

Potatoes served in their jackets (also adjective)

pack and (or or) peel

To have dealings (with) (Scott)

peel off

1. To leave a flying formation by a particular manoeuvre (aeronautics)
2. (of a ship) to veer away from a convoy
3. (of a person or group of persons) to veer off, separate from the mass

peel⁴ /pēl/ (croquet)

To cause (another player's ball) to go through the next hoop

• walking-staffs
• walking stick
• walking-stick
• walking sticks
• walking-sticks
• walking straw
• walking straws
• walking-ticket
• walking toad
• walking toads
• walking twig
• walking twigs
• walking wounded
• walk-ins
• walk into
• walk it
• Walkman
• walk Matilda
• walk-mill
• walkmill
• walk-mills
• walkmills
• walk off
• walk off with
• walk on