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Page 17 of 68 for the letter P

peel, peel$d, peelan, peeled, peeler, peelin, peelit, peelt, peil, peiler, pele, pellen, peln, pillan, piller, pullan, puller,
peel [pil]
n. Peel, skin.
v. To peel. To plunder, rob, pillage, cheat.
pt. pp. peelt
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
green spung piller: MN. The shore crab Carcinus maenas.
peeler [ˈpilər] also piller [ˈpɪlər, ˈpʌlər], NEC. N. I.Ork.
peeler: SW. A cold dry east wind. A cutting north wind. A small crab at shell casting time.
peelin: The skin, a thrashing.
pillan [ˈpɪlən, ˈpʌlən] or peelan [ˈpilən]: A small crab at shell casting time.
peal, peel, peels, peil,
peel [pil]
n. An equal, match to draw even, quits in games.
peel, peil,
peel [pil]
n. A pill, a tablet. I.Sh. A small quantity.
peel,
peel [pil]
n. A stockade, a fortified tower.
craa_peel, craw-peel, craw-pil, kraapeel, peel, peelo,
peel [I.Sh. pil]
n. A tiny particle or scrap, the smallest vestige, fragment or iota. Tiny black mussels that adher to tidal rocks.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
craw-peel: I.Sh. A small black mussel found on the fore-shore.
peel-a-walshe, peelie, peelie-waalie, peeliewalie, peeliewallie, peelie-wallie, peeliewally, peelie-wally, peelie-welsh, peelie-wersh, peelly_wally, peelly-wally, peelwairsh, peel-welsh, peel-wersh, peely, peely_wally, peelywallie, peely-wallie, peelywally, peely-wally, peerie_wallie, peilie-wallie, peley-welsh, peley-wersh, wallie,
peelie [ˈpilɪ]
adj. Thin, emaciated, stunted, sickly, feeble, pallid, wan, thin and ill-looking
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
peelie-wallie [-walɪ]: Sickly, feeble, pallid, delicate.
peelie-wersh: sickly, delicate in constitution, colourless, insipid, nondescript.
peenacle, peinacle, pienacle,
peenacle [ˈpinəkl]
n. A pinnacle.
Peenan, Peenin, Pennan,
Peenan [ˈpinɪn, ˈpenən]
pn. Pennan (Aberdeenshire).
peen, peend, pein, pene, pin,
peend [pin(d)]
n. A peak, apex, point. The sloping point at the end of a roof or hammer.
v. To strike with a peend hammer.
peenge, peengey, peengie, peengin, peengy, peinge, penge, pinge, pingey, pinjy, piskey-pingey, piskie-peengie,
peenge [pindʒ]
v. To whine, complain, whimper, mope.
 
peengie
adj. Peevish, fractious, querulous. Sickly-looking, puny, not in good health. Getting cold.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
peengin: Whining, complaining etc.
piskie-peengie: SW. Cold, harsh.

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