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What does peel mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word peel? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
  2. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
  3. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
  4. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
  5. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
Noun
  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.
Noun
  1. (obsolete) A stake.
  2. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  3. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Noun
  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.
Noun
  1. (Scotland and curling) An equal or match; a draw.
  2. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
Verb
  1. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
Verb
  1. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
Verb
  1. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.
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