Clues for the word "PEEL"

We've had 297 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 794 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on February 19, 2026.

Definition of peel

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