Peel
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.
