peeler UK /ˈpiːlə/US /ˈpiːlɚ/noun 15forms 2 noun15 •One who peels.According to another superstition, the longer the peel, the longer the peeler's life would be. — 2014 •A device for peeling fruit or vegetables. •A household utensil for peeling fruit or vegetables.I like to use a swivel peeler on my apples, mainly because a good peeler removes the skin only, without hacking off the flesh underneath the way a knife will, even in deft hands. — 2011 •An industrial food-processing machine for removing the peels or skins.Fish-processing equipment consists of 33, 181, 189, 188, 694 Baader machines and others which would be replaced for six months by krill peelers with associated devices. — 1985 •A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce. •A person who works by peeling the bark off trees.From about this time, it became customary to permit the peelers to appear annually before the government, immediately after the termination of the cinnamon-harvest. — 1833 •(UK, slang) A police officer.I was standin' there and the car came down the street with the two peelers comin' after them and I'm standin' here with [my son] in my arms. — 2004 •(slang, offensive) A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment. •Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.Xanthan gum was introduced into a traditional, wax-based coating formulation for easy peelers. — 2008 •An edible crab that is about to shed its shell.They bought peelers [crabs that would soon shed] and kept them in large wooden floats until the crabs shed. — 1986 •Someone who breaks horses.It took a real good bronc peeler ( horse breaker ) to handle those big 79 broncs — 1969 •An ideal wave.Fancy a wave, one of those little peelers? — 2010 •Something to be peeled. •A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers. •(no longer used) One who peels or pillages. formsPeelers · peelers
