Removed the outer skin or covering of something, usually food, by stripping it away.
From Old English 'pylian' or possibly Old Norse origin. The word originally meant to strip off skin or bark, and by the medieval period it was commonly used for removing the skins of fruits and vegetables.
Interestingly, the word 'peel' became the name for a type of shovel (called a baker's peel) because it's flat and thin like a peeled surface—so a pizza peel is named after removing skin!
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