noun a small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
2. peel ·noun the skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
3. peel ·vt to strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, ·etc.
4. peel ·vt to plunder; to pillage; to rob.
5. peel ·vi 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.
6. peel ·vt 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.
7. peel ·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.