ˈorange-ˌpeel
1. a. The rind of an orange, esp. when separated from the pulp.
| 1615 Markham Eng. Housew. (1668) 114 Four or five Orange-peels dry and beaten to powder. 1626 Bacon Sylva §21. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 90 The distilled water of Orange pilles. 1712 tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 151 Candied Orange Peel. 1838 Dickens O. Twist xiv, I've been lamed with orange-peel once, and I know orange-peel will be my death. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 13 June 4/1 One of them [Republican journals] compares the events of Sunday simply to a piece of orange-peel on which M. Dupuy slipped. |
b. attrib., as orange-peel cutter, orange-ˌpeel oil (= orange-oil), orange-ˌpeel water.
| 1757 A. Cooper Distiller ii. xvi. (1760) 142 Recipe for one Gallon of Orange-peel-Water. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Orange-peel Cutter, a slicer of Seville orange-peel, for drying or candying. 1875–9 Watts Dict. Chem. 2nd Suppl. 877 Orange-peel oil..The essential oil of orange-peel consists mainly of a hydrocarbon C10H16, called hesperidene. |
2. Used, usu. attrib., to designate a suspended bucket or grab composed of a number of curved, pointed segments that are hinged at the top and come together to form a container.
| 1905 C. Prelini Earth & Rock Excavation x. 129 Excavator-buckets are usually either clam-shell or orange-peel buckets. 1912 C. G. Elliott Engin. for Land Drainage (ed. 2) xiv. 209 The orange-peel is particularly useful in building levees. 1922 Powers & Teeter Land Drainage xvi. 170 (caption) A small dry land excavating outfit with orange-peel bucket. 1959 Micropaleontol. V. 218/1 Two sampling devices were used, the Hayward standard orange-peel grab and a snapper sampler. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 527 The samples were taken with an orange-peel bottom sampler. 1975 B. Fell Introd. Marine Biol. iii. 21 An orange-peel grab..has four valves that appear to form the four segments of an orange when cut along its meridians. |