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▸ verb: (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
▸ noun: (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
▸ noun: (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
▸ noun: (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A stake.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
▸ noun: (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
▸ noun: (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
▸ noun: (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
▸ noun: (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
▸ verb: (curling) To play a peel shot.
▸ verb: (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
▸ verb: (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.
▸ noun: (countable) A surname.
▸ noun: A placename
▸ noun: A town in the Isle of Man.
▸ noun: A former county in Ontario, Canada, abolished in 1974.
▸ noun: A regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, created in 1974.
▸ noun: A region south of Perth, Western Australia.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Robert Peel, British Prime Minister.
▸ noun: 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.]
▸ verb: Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly. [(intransitive) To sound with a peal or peals.]
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