meaning of peel

1. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
2. A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a bakers 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. To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
4. 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.
5. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
6. 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.
7. The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
8. PEEL Used to implement version of Emacs on PRIME computers. peephole optimisation A kind of code optimisation that considers only a few adjacent instructions at a time and looks for certain combinations which can be replaced with more efficient sequences. E. g. ADD R0, #1 ADD R0, #1 add one to register R0 could be replaced by ADD R0, #2
9. the rind of a fruit or vegetable

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