peel

1 :  the skin or rind of a fruit

2 :  a thin layer of organic material that is embedded in a film of collodion and stripped from the surface of an object (such as a plant fossil) for microscopic study

3 :  chemical peel

:  a usually long-handled spade-shaped instrument that is used chiefly by bakers for getting something (such as bread or pies) into or out of the oven

:  a medieval small massive fortified tower along the Scottish-English border —called also peel tower

Sir Robert 1788–1850 English statesman

river 425 miles (684 kilometers) long in northwestern Canada rising in western Yukon (territory) and flowing east and north into the Mackenzie River

1 :  to strip off the skin or bark of I'm peeling apples.

2 :  to strip or tear off He peeled off his clothes down to his swimming trunks … — Virginia Hamilton, M.C. Higgins

3 :  to come off smoothly or in bits The paint is peeling.

:  an outer covering and especially the skin of a fruit

1:  to strip off an outer layer of

2:  to remove (as skin or a blemish) by stripping

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2:  to lose an outer layer (as of skin) his face is peeling

:  chemical peel