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s, /nin, i,ilW.] I. Iran*. 1. To atrip the kin, peel 5 (pel), ' To be equal or have the same 
bark, or rin.l 1'rc.in ; strip by drawing or (raring si-ori- in a game. [Scotch.] 
olT tin- skin; Hay; d.-i-orti.-al. : bark: as. top,H Peel Act. Same as Hank-charter Act (which see, ( , nj) , , . ,, r( . t . and 
a tree; to perl an orange. When, as in the ease of undi-r /</.-). * lOriirin obscure. 1 
;, . ,!. skill ,. ,i hl i ei.nnot be torn off. hut Is re- nAAl-a/r Miftl'iiksl. n. Same as neelina-ax. 
moved with a nitting instrument 
inonly i 
The Hkilfill i 
hrphrnl pefl'd 
me certain wands. 
Shalt., M. of V.,l. S. 85. 
2. To strip off; remove by stripping. 
Ay me! the burk ;('' from the lofty pine, 
His leaves will wither and his sap ileeay. 
filial!., Lucrece, L 1167. 
= 8yn. Secjxire', e. t 
II. i at rii .. 1. To lose the skin or rind; be 
separated or come off in thin flakes or pellicles : 
as, the orangr />'* easily; the bark peel* off. 
Xiril'l. 2. To nndri'ss. | Slang. ] 
peel 1 (pi'l), M. [< peel 1 , t'.] The skin, bark, or 
rind of anything: as, the peel of an orange. 
On twigs of hawthorn ho regal'd, 
On pippins' russet peel. 
Coteper, Epitaph on a Hare. 
= Syn. Rind, ete. See oriu. 
peel- (pel), v. t. [<Mi:. tin-tin, p{m,<OF. peltr, 
jiili-r. plnndiT: see/iiY/i.] To plunder; devas- 
tate; spoil. Isa. xviii. -. 
Thy contre Shalt se put In exile all, 
Distrood, robbed, ;/. and more wnrse, 
By ille Sarisins; Ood glfe thaim his curse! 
Jtom. uf Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2189. 
Govern ill the nations under yoke, 
Peeling their provinces, exhausted all 
By lust and rapine. Milton, P. R., iv. 130. 
Whence, o thou orphan and defrauded? 
Is thy land ueeletl, thy realm marauded? 
Jirnmua, Woodnotes, II. 
peel'^ (pel), n, [Also wal; 
F. pclle = Sp. Pg.' It. p'ala, < Lt pitta, a spade, 
shovel, a bakers' peel, the shoulder-blade, the 
bezel of a ring: see;a/3.] 1. A kind of wood- 
en shovel with a broad blade and long handle, 
used by bakers to put bread into or take it out 
of the oven. In heraldry it is generally represented 
with one or more cakes of bread upon it, which are men- 
tioned in the blazon. 
The oven, the haven, the mawkln, the peel, 
The hearth and the range, the dog and: the wheel. 
B. Jaiuun, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue. 
The dough Is quickly introduced on a perl or long 
wooden shovel. Kncyc. Brit., III. 257. 
2. In printing, a wooden pole with a short cross- 
piece at one end, in the form of the letter T, 
used to convey printed sheets to and from the 
... When, as in the case of undi-r /./.-'). 
nnot he torn off, but Is re- peel-ax (pel'aks), n. Same as peeling-ax. ''' L - 
,en. .the word par. Is com- {Jjjjrfed ( &,!) . p.tt. [< ;>e c ,l + -id*.] 1. Strip- whln - [Scotch.] 
j _..._.! ...H. pedof tin 1 skin or outer rind: as. peeled potatoes _That useless peovi* 
or onions. 2. Barked; abraded: as, "every 
Piston rings may he made of a larger diameter by ptmy 
the ring all round on tin- lnlde. 
./. /.*, Pract. Machinist, p. 28S. 
i. iin mini, ]l|>r. 
To complain; 
;< ,!i 
\Jl ' M i i ' M i ->. >v. i '.i i ni'i* t " >-%/ ** i *"~J _ y-/l. JL\ 
shoulder WHS/.. -'../. "K/.rk.: sxix. 18. 3t. Bald; peen-hammer (pen ham er), , 
fl thing o' a lascle there at Elian- 
Seott, Oojr Mannvring, mix. 
A hammer 
h.rn 
Peefd priest, dost thoa command me to be hut out? 
Shale., 1 Hen. VI., I. S. JO. 
peelednesst, . Same a* jrilbdMif . 
with a cutting or ohMel edge. specifically (a) A 
hammer used for straightening and tAing the hackle. 
<Mi of ,,,,,,,, or pUte , lron {6) A ,Ume-maoni' heavy 
hlunmer ^ju, two opposite catting edge*. Bee cut under 
, I, H, 
peel-end (peTend), n. In a biscuit- or cracker- 
iniicliini 1 , the part beyond the cutter. E. H. 
Knight. 
peeler 1 (pe'ler), n. [< ptvP + -cr 1 .] I. One 
LG. piepen = Q. piepen, piepsen 
_ Dan. ww>e, < L. mpiare, pipare, pipire, alo 
pipilare (> It. pipihre) = Gr. mmriftiv, peep, 
c hirp. as a bird ; an imitative word, and an such 
Ct. 
. , 
who peels, strips, or flays. 2. A crab or lob- more or i eBg varied in form: see pipti. 
sterin the act of casting its shell; a shedder. <,,* i j. To chirp, cheep, or pipe; ut 
3. A stout iron bar of considerable length, hav- ^n t ^, in 8Oun d as a young chick. 
ing one end flattened into a broader surface, 
somewhat after the manner of a slice-bar, and 
the other end formed into a loop or handle, 
used by a workman called a " bailer" in placing 
charges of piles, billets, blooms, ingots, etc., of 
iron or steel in a reheating-furnace preparatory 
to hammering. [Local, Eiig.] 4. A "ripper"; 
a very energetic person. [New Eng.] 
Hiss Asphyxia's reputation In the region wa perfectly 
established. She was spoken of with applause undersuch 
titles as "a staver," "upealer" "a roarer to work.' 
//. B. Stow, Oldtown, p. 117. 
. oat with her sucking a peeler la found, 
Both ill to the master and worse to some ground. 
Tuner, January's Husbandry, I'- ''' 
[< I'eel (see def.) + -ct-i.] 
A policeman: so called from the English states- 
man Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), who while 
secretary for Ireland (1812-18) established a 
regular force of Irish police, and while home 
secretary (1828-30) improved the police system 
of London. [Colloq. or slang. ] 
He 's gone for aperfer and a search-warrant to break open 
the door. Kingnley, Alton Locke, xxxv. 
The hatred of a costal-monger to a peelrr Is Intense, and 
with their opinion of the police all the more Ignorant unite 
that of the governing power. 
Maiiheir, London Labour and London Poor, I. 22. 
neitey, a lower, a 10 as, arc 
fortified tower; a stronghold. The original peel 
appears to have been a structure of earth combined with 
timber, strengthened by palisades ; but the later peel was a 
horizontal poles on which they are dried. 3. 
The wash or blade of an oar, as distinguished peel-house (pel'hous), n. Same as peel*. 
from the loom. 4. A mark resembling a peeling (pe'ling), n. [Verbal n. of peet 1 ,rj.'] 1. 
skewer with a large ring ( 9 ), formerly used in The act of stripping off the skin, rind, or bark 
England as a mark for cattle, a signature-mark O f a thing; the stripping off of an outer cov- 
for persons unable to write, or the like. ering or nud. 2. That which is stripped off; 
>eel^ (pel). n. [<ME. pele, pel, pell (ML. pela), r i n d, peel, or skin stripped from the object 
a var. of pile : see in/A The W.pitl and Manx which it covered or to which it belonged : as, 
pelley, a tower, a fortress, are appar. < E.] A pot&to-peelings. 3. In printing, the art or act 
of removing from an impression-surface one or 
more layers of a paper overlay, to make a light- 
er impression. 
peeling-ax (pe'ling-aks), n. A double-bitted 
ax used for barking trees. E. H. Knight. Also 
pecl-aj. 
peeling-Iron (pe'ling-i'ern), n. A shovel-shaped 
thrusting instrument for prying up the bark and 
stripping it from trees. 
Peelite(pe'lit), n. [<PceJ(seedef.) + -<tca.] In 
Jiritish politics, one of a political party existing 
after the repeal of the corn-laws in 1846. originally 
(In large part) Tories, but free-traders and adherent* of Sir 
Robert Peel, they formed for several years a group inter- 
mediate between the Protectionist Tories and the Liberals. 
Several of them took office in the Aberdeen administration 
(1862-5), and, a* W. E. Gladstone. Sidney Herbert, and 
others, eventually joined the Liberal party. 
peel-tower, n. Same as peel*. 
peen (pen), . [Also pcan, pene, pcin, pientt; ap- 
par. < G. pinne, the peen of a hammer : see pin 1 
and pone 8 .] That end of a hammer-head or 
utter a 
And my hand hath found as a neat the rlehcs of the peo- 
ple ; and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gath- 
ered all the earth ; and there was none that moved the 
wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 
Bee procuring such peace In the East (salth Voplacua) 
that a rebdllous Mouie waa not heard to peepe. 
Purehat, Pilgrimage, p. S67. 
2. To speak in a piping or chirping tone. 
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that 
have familiar snirita, and unto wizards that peep, and that 
mutter : should not a people seek unto their (fod? 
Isa. vilL 19. 
She muttered and peeped, as the Bible says, like a wi*- 
ard. S. Judd, Margaret, L 16. 
3. To speak. [Slang.] 
peep 1 (pep), n. [= G. piep, jtip = Dun. pip, 
peep; from the verb.] 1. The cry of a young 
chick or other little bird. 
I heard the peep of the young when I could not see the 
parent bird. Thoreau, Walden, p. 246. 
2. A sandpiper ; a sandpeep. Several small t'nlted 
States species are commonly so called from their cry, as 
the least and semlpalmatd sandpiper*. Actodnmuu nu'nu- 
tilla and Kreuitrlet putilltu. 
peep- (pep), f. [Prob. a particular use of peep' , 
chirp, with ref. to a concealed fowler, who, 
'peeping' or chirping to beguile the birds, 
'peeps' or peers out to watch them. Cf. OP. 
piper, peep, to pipe <lu jour, the peep 
("day-pipe" Palsgrave). Lessprob. I 
ref. to the fancied 'peeping' or peering out of 
a 'peeping' or chirping chick. See pipe'*, r.] 
I. intrans. 1. To have the appearance of look- 
ing out or issuing from a narrow aperture or 
from a state of concealment; come partially 
into view ; begin to appear. 
I can see his pride 
Peep through each part of him. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., 1. 1. 69. 
the peep of day 
" , there is 
I'ccI timer, liilnocklc. Dumfriesshire, Scolland. 
Such 
where the cattle were kept, was generally vaulted. 
strongholds are frequent on the Scottish borders, and 
served as dwelling-houses for the chiefs of the smaller 
M'|.|- a- urll as fur plan's , if ilrf.'iisr a'-iiinsl Ml.l.li'n ma 
raudlng expeditions. The peel represented in the cut is 
said to have been the abode of the famous Johnle Arm- 
t n ii nr. //;'. Mcf. 
When they earn to the fair Dodhead, 
Right hastily they clam the met. 
Jamie Telfer (Chilifs Ballads, VI. 106). 
peel'"' (pel), n. (T^i'li-ip* 11 vnr. of /(/-'.] An 
equal; a match: as, they werej>ec/s at twelve. 
[Scotch.] 
m 
Hamracr-pcens. 
a. narrow peen for riveting : *, broad peen for machinists ; f, cross- 
peen for coopers : *, cone peen for chasing ; e. ball peen, upsetting 
nwumer for engravers. 
similar tool which terminates in an edge, or in 
a sharp, rounded, cone-shaped, hemispherical, 
or otherwise specially modified point, as dis- 
tinguished from the ordinary flat face. See 
also cuts under hammer. 
peen (pen), r. t. [< peen, n.] To treat by 
striking regularly all over with the peen of a 
hammer. 
Klowere, that were buds but yesterday, 
Peep from the ground where'er I pas. 
/;n/iin*, The New and the Old. 
2. To look (out or in) pryingly, slyly, or fur- 
tively, as through a crevice or small aperture ; 
look narrowly, slyly, or pryingly ; take a sly or 
furtive look ; peer ; peek. 
A fool will peep In at the door. F.oclus. xxl. 23. 
But Luther's broom Is left, and eyes 
Peep o'er their creeds to where It lies. 
LowtU, Villa Franca. 
A peeping Tom (In allusion to the legend of Peeping 
Tom ofCoventry), an Inquisitive person. 
n. trans. To let appear; show. [Kare.] 
There U not a dangerous action can 
but I am thrust upon It. 
peep 2 (pep), n. [< ee* 
tive look through 
a hurried or partial view; a glimpse; hence, 
the first looking out of light from the eastern 
horizon. 
But up then spake a little page, 
Before the peep of dawn. 
Battle of Otterbournt (Child's Ballads, VIL 22). 
Fan on me like the silent dew, 
Or like those maiden show'n 
Which by the prrjte of day doe strewe 
A hapt ime o re the flowers. 
Herrick, To Mutiqne, to becalmc hit Fever. 
A door left ajar gave him a peep Into the beat parlor, 
where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables 
shone like mirrors. Irring, Sleepy Hollow. 
We of the younger generation on the landing catch 
Bwwof distinguished men, and hits of their table-talk. 
LmrtU, Study Windows, p. W. 
2. A crevice or aperture ; a slit or opening af- 
fording only a narrow or limited view. 
peep out his bead 
Skat.,i Hen. IV., 1. 2. 238. 
[< peep*, .] 1. A sly or fur- 
gh or as if through a crevice; 
