peeler
1a person or thing that peels.
a long-staple cotton raised originally in the regions along the Yazoo River and the Mississippi River delta.
a yarn made from this cotton.
Slang. a striptease dancer.
a log, especially of a Douglas fir, suitable for rotary cutting into veneers.
Origin of peeler
1How to use peeler in a sentence
Then he showed himself in the crowd of "peelers" and their friends, as unconcernedly as he might; and as unobtrusively.
The Happy Family | Bertha Muzzy BowerAnd then, if I get a 'orse to mind, the peelers take it from me and tell me to cut off.
Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) FarjeonYou and your three peelers find that Bar Cross cow—objection overruled—and that bull yearling.
Stepsons of Light | Eugene Manlove RhodesThe guardians of the streets were the new police, the Peelers or the Bobbies as they were sarcastically called.
Christopher Crayon's Recollections | J. Ewing RitchieBaldy will be telling the peelers to-morrow all he knows about the sheep you stole, and then they'll fetch you, sure.
The Book of the Bush | George Dunderdale
British Dictionary definitions for peeler (1 of 2)
/ (ˈpiːlə) /
a special knife or mechanical device for peeling vegetables, fruit, etc: a potato peeler
US slang a striptease dancer
British Dictionary definitions for peeler (2 of 2)
/ (ˈpiːlə) /
British old-fashioned, slang another word for policeman
Origin of peeler
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