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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_154879" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_154879" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob. </p> <p> (2): (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. </p> <p> (3): (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. </p> <p> (4): (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. </p> <p> (5): (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. </p> <p> (6): (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. </p> <p> (7): (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' 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. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' 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. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' 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. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_77715" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_77715" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 18:50, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
(2): ( 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.
(3): ( n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
(4): ( 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.
(5): ( v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
(6): ( 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.
(7): ( n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A fishing town and holiday resort on the W. coast of the Isle of Man, 12 m. NW. of Douglas; it is noted for its castle.
