peeler (2)

[Eng. peel (2), v.; -er.] One who pillages, plunders, or rcbs; a plunderer; a pillager. "Yet oats with her sucking a peeler is found, Both ill to the master and worse to the ground." Tu er: January's Husbandry, § 51. "That usele peenging thing o' a la ie there at Ell an gowan."- Scott : Guy Manner ing , ch. xxxix. Fr. piper to whistle or chirp, as a bird, from Lat. peep (1), *pip-en, v . i . [O. Fr. pepier to peep; pipo , pipio to peep, to chirp; cf. Gr. pipizō , pip pizō to chirp.] To cry or chirp as a chicken or young bird; to cheep, to chirp, to pule. "As one gather eth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth, and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth or peeped . " -Isaiah x. 14.