peel1
  
  v.
    - remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit, vegetable, etc.).
- (of a surface) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces. ▸come off in strips or small pieces. 
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(peel something away/off)
 remove a thin outer covering. ▸
(peel something off)
 remove an article of clothing. 
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(peel off)
 leave a group by veering away. ▸
(peel out)
 N. Amer. informal leave quickly. 
n.
  - the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable.
- an act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion.
Derivative
  
    - peelable adj.
- peelings pl. n.
 
  Etymology
  ME (in the sense ‘to plunder’): var. of dial. pill, from L. pilare ‘to strip hair from’, from pilus ‘hair’.
 
  
    
peel2
  
  n.
 archaic a shovel, especially a baker's shovel for carrying loaves into or out of an oven.
Etymology
  ME: from OFr. pele, from L. pala, from the base of pangere ‘to fix’.
 
  
    
peel3
  
  n.
 a small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland.
Etymology
  prob. short for synonymous peel-house: peel from Anglo-Norman Fr. pel ‘stake, palisade’.
 
  
    
peel4
  
  v.
 Croquet  send (another player's ball) through a hoop.
Etymology
  C19: from the name of Walter H. Peel, founder of the All England Croquet Association.