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PEEL . (r) The skin or rind of a See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit; thus " to peel " is to remove the See also:

OUTER

outer covering of anything. The See also:

ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology of the word is closely connected with that of " pill," to See also:

PLUNDER

plunder, surviving in " pillage." Both words are to be referred to See also:

French and thence to Latin. In French peler and piller, though now distinguished in meaning (the first used of stripping bark or rind, the second meaning to rob), were somewhat confused in application, and a similar confusion occurs in See also:

ENGLISH

English till comparatively ' See also:

LATE

late. The Latin words from which they are derived are pellis, skin, and pilare, to See also:

STRIP

strip of See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair (pilus). (2) The name of a class of small fortified dwelling-houses built during the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century on the See also:

BORDERS, THE

borders between See also:

Scotland and See also:

England. They are also known as " bastes-houses," i.e. " See also:

BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build)

bastille-houses, and consist of a square massive See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower with high pitched roof, the See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

PART

part being vaulted, the upper part containing a few living rooms. The entrance is on the upper See also:

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor, See also:

ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access being gained by a movable See also:

LADDER, (0. Eng. hlaeder; of Teutonic origin, cf. Dutch leer, Ger. Leiter; the ultimate origin is in the root seen in " lean," Or. KNiµat)

ladder. The vaulted ground-floor chamber served for the See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle when there was danger of attack. The word appears in various forms, e.g. pele, peil, and Latinized as pelum, &c.; " See also:

PILE

pile " is also found used synonymously, but the New English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary (s.v. pile) considers the two words distinct. It seems more probable that the word is to be identified with " See also:

PALE (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; " pole " is from the same original source)

pale," a stake (See also:

Lat. palus).

The earlier meaning of " peel " is a palisaded enclosure used as an additional See also:

defence for a fortified See also:

POST

post or as an See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent stronghold.

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