PPage 159
- English Word Peel Definition To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
- English Word Peel Definition 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.
- English Word Peel Definition To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
- English Word Peel Definition 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.
- English Word Peel Definition The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
- English Word Peele Definition A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.
- English Word Peeled Definition of Peel
- English Word Peeler Definition One who peels or strips.
- English Word Peeler Definition A pillager.
- English Word Peeler Definition A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
- English Word Peelhouse Definition See 1st Peel.
- English Word Peeling Definition of Peel
- English Word Peen Definition A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
- English Word Peen Definition The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
- English Word Peen Definition To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.
- English Word Peenge Definition To complain.
- English Word Peep Definition To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
- English Word Peep Definition To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
- English Word Peep Definition To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.
- English Word Peep Definition The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.