English Dictionary

peeler

/ˈpiːlɚ/

noun

A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce. / A person who works by peeling the bark off trees. / (derogatory, slang) A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment.

I need a new peeler for the kitchen.

意味（1）

A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce.

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.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

(derogatory, slang) A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment.

意味（4）

(obsolete) One who peels or pillages.

意味（5）

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 dept hands.

意味（6）

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.

意味（7）

Something to be peeled.

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.

意味（8）

Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.

意味（9）

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.

意味（10）

(surfing) An ideal wave.

Fancy a wave, one of those little peelers?

意味（11）

(horticulture) A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.

意味（12）

Someone who breaks horses.

It took a real good bronc peeler ( horse breaker ) to handle those big 79 broncs ;