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[PEAKY.] A term applied to timber ( Scotch.) and trees, in which the first symptoms of decay are shown. peel (1), *pil-1-en, *pill-en, *pill, *pyll, v . t . & i . [Fr. peler to pill or peel, from Lat. pell is =a skin; Sp. pelar ; Ital. pelare .] A. Transitive : 1. To strip the skin, bark, or rind off; to bark, to flay; to strip by drawing or pulling off the skin; to decorticate, to pare. "The skillful shepherd peel'd me certain wands." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, i. 3. 2. To strip or pull off; to remove by stripping. "The bark peel'd from the lofty pine." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece , 1,167. 3. To strip in any way. [Cf. PEEL (2), v.] "Whether its territory had a little more or a little le peeled from its surface."- Burke : On a Regicide Peace , let. i. 4. To take off. ( Slang .) IMG:content-0807.png:[blocks in formation] peēl (2), v. t. [O. Fr. piller =to pillage.] [PILL (3), v.] To pillage, to plunder, to rob. " Peeling their provinces."- Milton : P. R. , iv. 136. peēl (1), s . [PEEL (1), v.] The skin or rind of anything; as, the peel of an orange. peēl (2), *pele, *peele, s. [Fr. pelle; O. Fr. pale, from Lat. pal a =a spade, a shovel, a peel.] 1. Baking : A wooden shovel with a long handle, used by bakers in putting loaves into and withdrawing them from the oven. "A notable hot baker 'twas, when he ply'd the peele ."Ben Jonson: Bartholomew Fair , iii. 2. 2. Print.: A similarly shaped implement for hanging wet shests of paper on lines to dry. 3. Naut.: The wash of an oar.