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peel a long-handled shovel used by bakers for moving bread, in an oven Peel 1. John, real name John Robert Parker Ravenscroft. 1939--2005, British broadcaster; noted for his Radio 1 music programme and Radio 4's Home Truths 2. Sir Robert. 1788--1850, British statesman; Conservative prime minister (1834--35; 1841--46). As Home Secretary (1828--30) he founded the Metropolitan Police and in his second ministry carried through a series of free-trade budgets culminating in the repeal of the Corn Laws (1846), which split the Tory party
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If that's not the boy, sir, who had the orange, and threw this bit of peel upon the staircase, I'll eat my head, and his too. Now the only thing they drank was "horse's neck"--a long, soft, cool drink with an apple peel or an orange peel floating in it. George gathered wood and made a fire, and Harris and I started to peel the potatoes. |
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