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peel

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi?l/
    • IPA(key): [p?i??], [p?i??]
  • Rhymes: -i?l
  • Homophone: peal

Etymology 1

From Middle English pelen itself from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier, both from Latin pil?, pil?re (to remove hair from, depilate), from pilus (hair). Doublet of pill.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

  1. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
    I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
  2. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
    I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.
    We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.
  3. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
    I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.
  4. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
    The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.
  5. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
    The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.
Synonyms
  • (remove outer covering): skin, strip
  • (remove clothing): disrobe, strip
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

peel (countable and uncountable, plural peels)

  1. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
  2. (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
  3. (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
  4. (countable) A spatula-like device to remove bread or pizza from an oven.
Synonyms
  • (skin of a fruit): rind, zest
Derived terms
  • orange peel
  • peel strength
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English peel, pele, from Anglo-Norman pel (compare modern French pieu), from Latin palus (stake). Doublet of pole.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

  1. (obsolete) A stake.
  2. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  3. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Derived terms
  • peel-house, peelhouse
  • peel-tower

Etymology 3

From Old French pele (modern French pelle), from Latin p?la, from the base of plangere (fix, plant). Doublet of pala.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

  1. 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.
  2. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
  3. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
Translations

Etymology 4

Origin unknown.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

  1. (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
  2. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

  1. (curling) To play a peel shot.

Etymology 5

Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

  1. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

Etymology 6

Old French piller (pillage).

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.

Etymology 7

Noun

peel (plural peels)

  1. Alternative form of peal (a small or young salmon)

Etymology 8

Verb

peel

  1. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
    • 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information number XXVI, available in, 1825, The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information, page 401,
      Oh ! still for me let merry bells peel out their holy chime;
    • 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1,
      The lights flashed, the crowds sang,... bells peeled, bombs thundered,... and the new Century made its triumphant entry.
    • 2006, Miles Richardson, Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place, Louisiana State University Press, ?ISBN, pages 230–231,
      As the tiny Virgin... approaches one of the barrio churches, bells peel vigorously, a brass band launches into a fast-paced tune, and large rockets zoom... .

Anagrams

  • LEEP, Leep, Lepe, Pele, leep

Wolof

Noun

peel

  1. shovel

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jeel

English

Etymology 1

Noun

jeel (plural jeels)

  1. Alternative form of jheel
    • 1820, Walter Hamilton, A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Countries, Volume 1, page 246,
      The pieces of stagnant water may be divided into jeels which contain water throughout the year, and chaongre which dry up in the cold season.
    • 1827, East India Company, Journey across the Arracan Mountains, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 23, page 16,
      On the banks of this jeel the party encamped, about two miles from the village.
    • 1827, The Burmese War: Operations on the Sihet Frontier, 1824, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 24, page 551,
      The reports of some hircarrahs having induced a belief that a short passage might be discovered across the jeels from the Gogra towards Tilyn, Lieut. Fisher, of the Quarter-Master General's department, was despatched to reconnoitre the outlets from that river, accompanied by Lieut. Craigie and five sipahees, in two dingees.

Etymology 2

Manx jeeyl, jeeill ("damage"), cognate to Irish díobháil.

Noun

jeel

  1. (Isle of Man) Damage; harm.
    • 1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79:
      And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened,
      Because of coorse she navar reckoned
      But Misthriss Banks could do the jeel 1
      She was braggin she could, and she'd take and kneel
      On her bended knees, and she'd cuss — the baste !
      []
      1 Damage.
    • 1908, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), Eunys, Or the Dalby Maid, page 16:
      An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel,
      But that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel.
    • 1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect,
      page 73, entry "Govvag":
      The jeel (damage) the govags is doin to the nets is urrov all marcy.
      page 188, entry "Traa-dy-liooar":
      An' the wan (one) that's doin all the jeel (damage) is wickad Traa-dy-liooar (Time-enough). (Cushag.)

Further reading

  • William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “jeel”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

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