How to pronounce peel

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What peel means

noun

Most people know peel in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A baker's long flat shovel for moving bread in an oven

In a sentence: The baker slid the peel under the hot loaves and pulled them out of the oven.

Where it comes from: It comes from the old French pele, which goes back to the Latin pala. It is a different word from the peel of a fruit, which comes from a Latin word meaning to strip off hair.

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