Definition of peel

• 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.