Word Meaning

peels definition and meaning

n. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
n. 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.
v. t. To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
v. i. 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.
n. The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

Crossword clues for peels

- Citrus rind
- Citrus skin
- Fruit skin
- Removable cover
- Remove skin
- Rind
- Strip off
- Pares
- Removes rind from
- Rinds
- Rings loudly to get strips
- Strips off