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▪ I. peeler1|ˈpiːlə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 peler, 5–6 -our, -owr, 6 Sc. pelor, pellour, peiler, pieller, pealler, 7 pieler, 6– peeler.
[f. peel v.1 + -er1. See also piller.]
†1.
a. A plunderer, spoiler, robber, thief; = piller1 1.
a1352Minot Poems (ed. Hall) ii. 15 Now haue þai, þe pelers, priked obout. 1436Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 164 These false coloured pelours, Called of Seynt Malouse. 1508Dunbar Flyting 70 How that thow, poysonit pelor, gat thy paikis. a1510― Poems xviii. 12 Than every pelour and purspyk Sayis, Land war bettir warit on me. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 2469 Put thir thrie pellours into pressoun strang. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. xi. AA vij b, A vyle couetouse extortioner and pieller of the people. 1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 639 Apollodorus, the Theef, Pieler, and spoiler of the Cassandrines.
b. A plant that robs or impoverishes the soil.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 49 Graie wheat is the grosest,..and a peeler of ground. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 152 Hemp..as 'tis esteemed a Peeler of Land, 'tis best to sow it upon Lands that are rank. 1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. II. i. 38 All the oat tribe are great peelers or robbers of the goodness of the earth.
2. a. One who peels, strips, or pares off the skin or rind of fruit, the bark of trees, etc.; also, an instrument or machine for peeling.
1597Sc. Acts 5 (Heading of Act Jas. I, c. 33) Steallers of greene woodde..peallers of Trees. 1755Johnson, Peeler, one who strips or flays. 1846H. Marshall Ceylon 11 Peelers who failed to produce monthly above 30 lbs. of cinnamon, were liable to be flogged. 1881Pall Mall G. 5 Oct. 14/1 The peelers [of peaches] earn from sixty cents. to two dollars per day. 1883Cassell's Fam. Mag. Aug. 528/1 The [coffee] beans again thoroughly dried and the parchment skin removed by a ‘peeler’.
b. A name given to a crab when it peels or casts its shell or ‘peel’. Also attrib.
1866W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire, Peeler, the Shore-crab when casting its shell. 1880in Antrim & Down Gloss. 1883Century Mag. July 378/2 Large craw-fish, which were about to shed their outer cases, or shells, and which for this reason are called ‘shedders’, or ‘Peelers’. 1911C. O. Minchin Sea-Fishing xvii. 245 When the cold outer shell has cracked and is ready to fall, and the new soft shell beneath is growing to replace it, the crab is called a ‘peeler’, and is then in the best condition for bait. 1934Sun (Baltimore) 27 July 9/8 Hook-and-line fishermen can scarcely buy the popular peeler crab bait for fishing. 1956M. Kennedy Salt-Water Angling x. 321 The crab is perhaps most useful as a bait shortly before it moults—when it has developed the new shell beneath the old one,..the angler anticipating nature by stripping the old shell off it. In this stage it is known variously as a peeler, peel, pill or shedder crab. 1971Angling Times 10 June 3 Van driver Colin drifted his peeler crab bait around the rocks on float tackle. 1976Scottish Daily Express 24 Dec. 12/6 For the smaller fish, rag and lugworm, soft peeler crab and strips of herring or mackerel are usually acceptable.
3. U.S.
a. An exceptional or noteworthy example of anything; spec. a violent storm.
1823J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. xv. 212 It's a peeler with⁓out, I can tell you, good woman. 1834C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing 331 The Captain was all the while boastin of [his boat] the ‘Two Pollies’; and well he might, for she was a peeler. 1861Entertaining Things I. 197 The gale..was a steady hard blow, what sailors call a peeler.
b. A person of exceptional or unusual qualities; a lively or energetic person.
1833S. Smith Life & Writings J. Downing 218 Them are Pennsylvany chaps are real peelers for electing folks when they take hold. 1834C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing 88 If he does turn broker, you'll hear more on him; for he's a peeler I tell you. 1844‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 82, I was talking with a rare peeler of a gal. 1869Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Folks 117 She was spoken of with applause under such titles as ‘a staver’, ‘a pealer’, ‘a roarer to work’. 1881W. M. Thayer From Log Cabin to White House xiii. 207 He's a peeler for work, too; ain't afraid to dirty hisself.
4. a. One who removes his clothing: spec. a pugilist ready to strip for a fight.
1852As Good as Comedy iv. 56 ‘I know you hain't got the teeth to raise the skin of that varmint.’ ‘Hain't I, then? Just you try it, then,..and see if I ain't a peeler.’ ‘Will you peel?’ ‘Won't I, then?’ ‘Jake, my boy, I've come here to-day to strip the skin off you altogether.’
b. A strip-tease artist; a stripper.
1951Variety 20 June 53/2 (heading) Old Peelers Fade Away in St. Louis Crackdown. Ibid., A steady exodus from the city of strippers in..St. Louis has been reported... It results from the crackdown of the law, with the peelers being replaced by jugglers, singers and hula dancers. 1951Green & Laurie Show Biz 570/2 Peeler, stripteaser. 1955Variety 9 Mar. 62/4 Chicago, for years a stripper's haven, is now seriously beset by a dearth of peelers. 1961A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business 66 Peeler,..strip-teaser.
5. U.S. A cowboy.
1894O. Wister Out West: Jrnls. & Lett. (1958) 198 Peeler, cowpuncher. 1902Out West June 623 The 7 TX peelers is all in on this play,..and the 10 ec outfit will want a hand too. 1903[see act v. 9 f]. 1914B. M. Bower Flying U Ranch 7 This is Mr. Mig-u-ell Rapponi, boys—a peeler straight from the Golden Gate. 1937Dialect Notes VI. 618 Used in its strictest sense, the peeler refers to the cowpuncher who rides into the herd and ‘cuts’ out the horse desired. 1943L. V. Hamner Short Grass 163 The driver, or ‘peeler’, rode the wheel horse and guides the whole team with one line.
6. In full, peeler log. The trunk of a tree, esp. a softwood one, suitable for the manufacture of veneer by the use of a rotary lathe, which peels thin sheets of wood from the log.
1935Timberman Dec. 3/2 Some studies should be undertaken at once to determine the economic limits of the Douglas fir peelers... The log scarcity has brought forth the Veneer specialist, who makes a business of producing and preparing peeler logs for the plywood trade. 1942Wood & Linn Plywoods vi. 179 From the [North American Pacific Coast] forests the ‘peeler’ logs, in lengths up to 40 feet, are conveyed by water, rail or road to the plywood mills. 1948Q. Jrnl. Forestry XLII. 33 Poplar plywood could be manufactured if more peeler logs were grown. 1958W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 133 Peeler... A log suitable for plywood. 1966A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 65 Peeler log, log from which veneer is cut by the rotary process of peeling. 1973Nature West Coast 62 Wood [of grand fir] is used for pulp, lumber and peelers (core stock for plywood).
▪ II. peeler2|ˈpiːlə(r)|
A nickname given to members of the Irish constabulary, founded under the secretaryship (1812–18) of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Robert Peel; hence subsequently also to policemen in England: see quot. 1858. See bobby 2.
1817Gen. Mathew in Parl. Deb. 1386 The Irishman..was liable to be carried off without a moment's warning, by a set of fellows well known in Ireland..by the name of Peelers. 1818Sir R. Peel Let. to Gregory 14 Apr., We must not make the Peelers unpopular, by maintaining them against the declared and unequivocal sense of the county in which they act. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXV. 569 The ‘Peelers’ (by which significant term the whole constabulary force appointed under Mr. Goulburn's bill, as well as those by Mr. Peel's act, are known in the vernacular). 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xxxv, He's gone for a peeler and a search warrant to break open the door. 1858Penny Cycl. 2nd Suppl. 494/1 Mr. Peel, as Home Secretary, introduced..the new Metropolitan Police Act [1829] which provided London with its efficient body of ‘Peelers’, subject to the Home Office, in lieu of the old ‘Charlies’. 1881‘Rita’ My Lady Coquette xvi, The peelers ain't after him.
▪ III. peeler3 local.
[Origin unknown.]
In Kent: An iron bar used for drilling holes for hop-poles or wattles.
1796J. Boys Agric. Kent (1813) 56 A large iron peeler to make holes in the land for the [hop] poles, costs 6s. or 7s. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) I. 45 Hop-peeler.—The peeler is made use of for forming holes for the hop-poles. |