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Meaning:

Noun:

  • and|curling An equal or match; a draw.
  • A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or exfoliate.
  • archaic A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  • US The blade of an oar.
  • A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
  • A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
  • curling A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
  • obsolete A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  • obsolete A stake.
  • rugby The action of peeling away from a formation.
  • The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable etc. (usually uncountable)

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Verb:

  • transitive To plunder; to pillage, rob.
  • croquet To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
  • intransitive To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
  • intransitive To move, separate (off or away)
  • intransitive To remove one's clothing.
  • peal|nodot=1: to sound loudly.
  • transitive To remove from the outer or top layer of.
  • transitive To remove the skin or outer covering of.

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