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peeling

We have found lemma(root) word of peeling : peel.

Definitions


[piːl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable)
(e.g: she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care)

- (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces
(e.g: the walls are peeling)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): variant of dialect pill, from Latin pilare ‘to strip hair from’, from pilus ‘hair’. The differentiation of peel and pill may have been by association with the French verbs peler ‘to peel’ and piller ‘to pillage’


[piːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable
(e.g: pieces of potato peel)

- an act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): variant of dialect pill, from Latin pilare ‘to strip hair from’, from pilus ‘hair’. The differentiation of peel and pill may have been by association with the French verbs peler ‘to peel’ and piller ‘to pillage’


[piːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven
(e.g: a wooden pizza peel)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French pele, from Latin pala, from the base of pangere ‘fasten’


[piːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland
(e.g: in 1326 orders were given for the peel of the castle to be repaired)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in sense ‘palisade or fence formed of stakes’): from Anglo-Norman French pel, peel, pele ‘stake, palisade’, from Latin palus ‘stake’. The current sense is probably short for synonymous peel-house


[piːl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- send (another player's ball) through a hoop
(e.g: the better players are capable of peeling a ball through two or three hoops)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 19th century: from the name of Walter H. Peel, founder of the All England Croquet Association, a leading exponent of the practice




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