n. [ OE. pel. Cf. Pile a heap. ] A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. pelle, L. pala. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Confused with peel to strip, but fr. F. piller to pillage. See Pill to rob, Pillage. ] To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
But govern ill the nations under yoke,
Peeling their provinces. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
n. The skin or rind;
n. (Zool.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also
pos>adj. Naked; -- used informally.
n. One who peels or strips. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Peel to plunder. ] A pillager. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from
n. See 1st Peel. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.