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A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. |
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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. |
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To plunder; to pillage; to rob. |
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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. |
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To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin
of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. |
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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. |
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The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. |
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