Defn: A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.
PEELER
Peel"er, n.
Defn: One who peels or strips.
PEELER
Peel"er, n. Etym: [See Peel to plunder.]
Defn: A pillager.
PEELER
Peel"er, n.
Defn: A nickname for a policeman; — so called from Sir Robert Peel.
[British Slang] See Bobby.
PEELHOUSE
Peel"house`, n.
Defn: See 1st Peel. Sir W. Scott.
PEEN Peen, n. Etym: [Cf. G. pinne pane of a hammer.] (a) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation. (b) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer. [Spelt also pane, pein, and piend.]