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Peek
- noun - a secret look
- throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
Peel
- noun - A baker's shovel-like tool for sliding loaves of bread into and outof the oven
- British politician (1788-1850)
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
- get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
- strip the skin off; "pare apples"
- the rind of a fruit or vegetable
Peen
- noun - the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes)
Peep
- noun - a secret look
- appear as though from hiding; "the new moon peeped through the tree tops"
- cause to appear; "he peeped his head through the window"
- look furtively; "He peeped at the woman through the window"
- make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes"
- speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice
- the short weak cry of a young bird
Peer
- noun - a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around"
Pees
- noun - eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had peed on the expensive rug"
- informal terms for urination; "he took a pee"
- liquid excretory product; "
Reed
- noun - a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
- a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it; "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"
- tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
- United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
- United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
Reef
- noun - a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
- a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
- lower and bring partially inboard; "reef the sailboat's mast"
- one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind
- reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
- roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area
Reek
- noun - a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
- be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
- give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.; "Marshes reeking in the sun"
- have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism"
- smell badly and offensively; "The building reeks of smoke"
Reel
- noun - a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
- a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
- music composed for dancing a reel
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
- walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
- wind onto or off a reel
- winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod