peel
verb
[ piːl ]
• remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable).
• "she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care"
Similar:
pare,
skin,
take the skin/rind off,
strip,
shave,
trim,
flay,
hull,
shell,
husk,
shuck,
decorticate,
• (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces.
• "the walls are peeling"
peel
noun
• the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable.
• "pieces of potato peel"
Similar:
rind,
skin,
covering,
zest,
hull,
pod,
crust,
shuck,
capsule,
outer layer,
epicarp,
pericarp,
exocarp,
integument,
• an act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion.
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’.
peel
noun
• 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.
• "a wooden pizza peel"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French pele, from Latin pala, from the base of pangere ‘fasten’.
peel
noun
• a small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland.
Origin:
probably short for synonymous peel-house : peel from Anglo-Norman French pel ‘stake, palisade’, from Latin palus ‘stake’.
peel
verb
• 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.
