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Definition of Peel

Peel

A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

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.

To plunder; to pillage; to rob.

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; as, to peel an orange.

To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.

The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

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Peel Quotations

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Quentin Crisp

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
Annie Leibovitz

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
Howard Carter

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
Diane Lane

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
Doug Coupland

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
Mark Ruffalo

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.
Ricky Williams

I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great.
Todd English

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
James Huneker

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.
Charlotte Curtis

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Peel Translations

peel in Afrikaans is skil
peel in Dutch is schillen, afpellen, jassen
peel in French is pelent, pelage, coque, peler, pelons, pelez
peel in Italian is sbucciare
peel in Latin is crusta
peel in Portuguese is casca
peel in Swedish is skala, skal

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