Word Meaning

Meaning of 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.

Crossword clue for peel

- Citrus rind
- Citrus skin
- Fruit skin
- Removable cover
- Remove skin
- Rind
- Strip off
- Trim baker’s shovel