peel

IPA: pˈiɫ

(usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
(countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
(countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
(obsolete) A stake.
(obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
(archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
(archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
(Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
(curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
(countable) A surname.
A placename
A town in the Isle of Man.
A former county in Ontario, Canada, abolished in 1974.
A regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, created in 1974.
A region south of Perth, Western Australia.
(uncountable) Robert Peel, British Prime Minister.
Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”) [A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.]

(transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
(transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
(intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
(intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
(intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
(curling) To play a peel shot.
(croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
(archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.
Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly. [(intransitive) To sound with a peal or peals.]

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