1. [n]  the rind of a fruit or vegetable
2. [n]  British politician (1788-1850)
3. [n]  the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)
4. [v]  get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"
5. [v]  come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
6. [v]  strip the skin off ("pare apples")

1. \Peel\, n. [OE. pel. Cf. {Pile} a heap.]
   A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]
   

2. \Peel\, 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.
   

3. \Peel\, 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.]
         But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their
         provinces.                               --Milton.
   

4. \Peel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peeled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Peeling}.] [F. peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to
   peel, fr. L. pilare to deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or
   perh. partly fr. F. peler to peel off the skin, perh. fr. L.
   pellis skin (cf. {Fell} skin). Cf. {Peruke}.]
   1. 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.
            The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
                                                  --Shak.
   2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin
      of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
   

5. \Peel\, v. i.
   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.
   

6. \Peel\, n.
   The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
   

Used to implement version of Emacs on PRIME computers.