peel
verb (used with object)
to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc..
Peelite
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a word derived from
Peel.
Example Sentences
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The same evening, Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Aberdeen as follows:— 'I am told that the whole complexion of the Government will look too Peelite.
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by John Knox Laughton
Suppose I were to start as a Peelite?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
That alliance between whig and Peelite which Lord John the year before had been unable to effect, had become imperative, and at least a second experiment was to be tried.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley
What Brooke trusts to, is that they are going to turn out Oliver because he is a Peelite.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
They are able to look along his whole track, and seeing him from behind, know him as a Peelite, a follower of Aberdeen, a Palmerstonian, a Russellite, and a Radical.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
