Word: peeler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English peler, piller, pyllare, pilour, pelure, pelour, equivalent to peel + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːlɚ/, /ˈpiːlə/ 1. One who peels. Example: According to another superstition, the longer the peel, the longer the peeler's life would be. 2. One who peels. Example: She and I took a few minutes together once the belts began rolling with red tomatoes and with the shiny cans which clanked their hollow wind-chime twang as they paraded down the chute on the way to their own conveyor belts which ran parallel to the wide ones the tomatoes rode on. In order to get these few minutes she'd had to implement a schedule for the peelers, who were always fighting like schoolchildren to get to the front of the line to claim their places, vying for the best spots where they could grab the biggest tomatoes to fill their cans faster. 3. One who peels. Example: 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. Example: Women cooked and cleaned in the larger camps, where the peelers stayed for a month or more. A good peeler could make two cords of bark a day, felling hemlocks and peeling the bark off only the trunk below the first branch. 4. One who peels. Labels: derogatory, slang 5. One who peels. Labels: obsolete 6. A device for peeling fruit or vegetables. Example: 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. Example: The OXO peeler was a game-changer. More than 10 million have been sold to date, and it threw open the entire market in peelers, causing numerous rivals to be invented: serrated fruit peelers, vegetable peelers with curved blades, Y-shaped and C-shaped and U-shaped peelers in any colour you desire (and many you don't). 7. A device for peeling fruit or vegetables. Example: 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. Example: Peelers with knife blades mounted in the outside walls of a revolving drum in which the product is tumbled have a similar effect as an abrasion peeler. 8. Something to be peeled. Example: To prepare the vignette, the limits of all control areas are scribed as thin lines on one sheet of coated plastic, and a mask is prepared for each of the two colors on plastic sheets with a peeler coating. Example: Canning apples ("peelers") must be over 2-1/2 inches in diameter; peelers may have surface damage since they will be peeled in the process of making apple sauce or slices, but they must be round for the peeling machines to handle them properly. 9. Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling. Example: Xanthan gum was introduced into a traditional, wax-based coating formulation for easy peelers. Example: It will be necessary to continually monitor the holes for voids and the plating for peelers -- but this is a good idea for any plating operation which uses dry film photoresist. 10. Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling. Example: They bought peelers [crabs that would soon shed] and kept them in large wooden floats until the crabs shed. Example: Once the crab has molted, the new shell takes about four days to harden. Just after shedding, the blue crab's shell is soft enough to eat. Watermen harvest soft shell crabs as peelers (about to shed), rank peelers (within hours of shedding) and busters (in the process of shedding). 11. An ideal wave. Example: Fancy a wave, one of those little peelers? Example: If he could ride a trend as well as he could ride a First Point Malibu peeler—well, that's how the game was played. 12. A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers. 13. Someone who breaks horses. Example: It took a real good bronc peeler ( horse breaker ) to handle those big 79 broncs ; Example: My old daddy always said that the purpose of breakin a horse was to ride it and if you got one to break you just as well to saddle up and climb aboard and get on with it. John Grady grinned. Was your old daddy a certified peeler?