peel

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A fortified house or tower of a kind constructed in the borderland of Scotland and England in the 1500s.
• noun The skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables.
• noun A chemical peel.
• intransitive verb To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare.
• intransitive verb To strip away; pull off.
• intransitive verb To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering.
• intransitive verb To come off in thin strips or pieces, as bark, skin, or paint.
• noun A long-handled, shovellike tool used by bakers to move bread or pastries into and out of an oven.
• noun Printing A T-shaped pole used for hanging up freshly printed sheets of paper to dry.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The skin, bark or rind of anything: as, the peel of an orange.
• noun Synonyms Rind, etc. See skin.
• To strip the skin, bark, or rind from; strip by drawing or tearing off the skin; flay; decorticate; bark: as, to peel a tree; to peel an orange.
• To strip off; remove by stripping.
• Synonyms see pare, v. t
• To lose the skin or rind; be separated or come off in thin flakes or pellicles: as, the orange peels easily; the bark peels off Swift.
• To undress.
• noun A fortified tower; a stronghold.
• noun An equal; a match: as, they were peels at twelve.
• To plunder; devastate; spoil.
• noun A kind of wooden shovel with a broad blade and long handle, used by bakers to put bread into or take it out of the oven.
• noun In printing, a wooden pole with a short cross-piece at one end, in the form of the letter , used to convey printed sheets to and from the horizontal poles on which they are dried.
• noun The wash or blade of an oar, as distinguished from the loom.
• noun A mark resembling a skewer with a large ring (), formerly used in England as a mark for cattle, a signature-mark for persons unable to write, or the like.
• To be equal or have the same score in a game.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Scot. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
• noun 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.
• noun The skin or rind.
• transitive verb 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.
• transitive verb To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
• transitive verb obsolete To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
• intransitive verb To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb.
• intransitive verb nformal To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down .

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete A stake.
• noun obsolete A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
• noun archaic A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
• noun A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
• noun A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
• noun archaic, US The blade of an oar.
• verb croquet To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
• verb Common misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
• noun An equal or match; a draw.
• noun curling A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
• verb archaic, transitive To plunder; to pillage, rob.
• verb transitive To remove the skin or outer covering of.
• verb transitive To remove from the outer or top layer of.
• verb intransitive To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.