| n. | 1. | A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. |
| 1. | 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. | |
| v. t. | 1. | To plunder; to pillage; to rob. |
| 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; | |
| 2. | To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. | |
| v. i. | 1. | To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; - often used with an adverb; |
| 2. | To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with | |
| n. | 1. | The skin or rind; |
| Noun | 1. | peel - the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit) |
| 2. | Peel - British politician (1788-1850)Synonyms: Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel | |
| 3. | peel - the rind of a fruit or vegetable Synonyms: skin | |
| Verb | 1. | peel - strip the skin off; "pare apples" |
| 2. | peel - come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off" | |
| 3. | peel - get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" |
| PEEL - Used to implement version of Emacs on PRIME computers. |
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