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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Peel \Peel\, v. i.
   To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin,
   bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the
   bark peels easily or readily.

Peel \Peel\, n.
   The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

Peel \Peel\, n. [OE. pel. Cf. {Pile} a heap.]
   A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]

Peel \Peel\, n. [F. pelle, L. pala.]
   A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves
   of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used
   by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper
   on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

Peel \Peel\, v. t. [Confused with peel to strip, but fr. F.
   piller to pillage. See {Pill} to rob, {Pillage}.]
   To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.]

         But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their
         provinces.                               --Milton.

Peel \Peel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peeled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Peeling}.] [F. peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to
   peel, fr. L. pilare to deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or
   perh. partly fr. F. peler to peel off the skin, perh. fr. L.
   pellis skin (cf. {Fell} skin). Cf. {Peruke}.]
   1. To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by
      drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to
      flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.

            The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin
      of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

Source : WordNet®

peel
     n 1: the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)
          [syn: {skin}, {rind}]
     2: British politician (1788-1850) [syn: {Robert Peel}, {Sir
        Robert Peel}]
     3: the rind of a fruit or vegetable [syn: {skin}]

peel
     v 1: strip the skin off; "pare apples" [syn: {skin}, {pare}]
     2: come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my
        house is peeling off" [syn: {peel off}, {flake off}, {flake}]
     3: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of
        everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night
        for a living" [syn: {undress}, {discase}, {uncase}, {unclothe},
         {strip}, {strip down}, {disrobe}] [ant: {dress}, {dress}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

PEEL
     
        Used to implement version of {Emacs} on {PRIME} computers.
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