DEF: 1. To remove the skin of a fruit or vegetable. 2. To separate a layer that sticks to another. 3. The skin of a fruit.
EX:
Please peel the potatoes while I’m preparing the meat.
The paint is peeling off the wall, we need to repaint it.
Watch out, you are about to slip on a banana peel.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
peel (verb)transitive verb
1.
to strip off an outer layer of - peel an orange
2.
intransitive verb
to remove by stripping - peel the label off the can
1.
a) to come off in sheets or scales
b) to lose an outer layer (as of skin) - his face is peeling
2.
to take off one's clothes
3.
to break away from a group or formation - often used with off
1.
the skin or rind of a fruit
2.
a thin layer of organic material that is embedded in a film of collodion and stripped from the surface of an object (as a plant fossil) for microscopic study
3.
- chemical peel
a usually long-handled spade-shaped instrument that is used chiefly by bakers for getting something (as bread or pies) into or out of the oven
a medieval small massive fortified tower along the Scottish-English border - called also peel tower
Sir Robert 1788–1850 Eng. statesman
river 425 (684 ) Canada rising in Yukon Territory & flowing & into the Mackenzie - miles kilometers NW W E N
