LekhoriLekhoriTo remove something from the outer or top layer of.
I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.
To play a peel shot.
To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
To plunder; to pillage, rob.
But govern ill the nations under yoke, / Peeling their provinces.
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;
A surname.
A placename:
From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.
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The action of peeling away from a formation.
A stake.
A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
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.
Near-synonym: pizza paddle
A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
An equal or match; a draw.
Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”).