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Meanings of parer in English

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A device used to sharpen pencils by shaving the wood at one end.

A small sharp knife used in paring fruits or vegetables.

Usage of parer in English
1
It is derived from the French parer to parry, and chute a fall.
The Mastery of the Air
2
It's about time you learnt your mistake, you old cheese-parer!
Will Warburton
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Guy said "Thank you" and began to turn the parer eagerly.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
4
The countess remained looking at the parer for a time, then she raised her tearful eyes to the face of the empress.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
5
No better nut-crackers and fruit-parers could possibly be found.
Science in Arcady
6
Nowadays they,'re only cheese-parers, that's what I call 'em.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919
7
I've been puttering around inventing new magnetos, potato-parers and the like, but this is my latest hobby.
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon; Or, The Longest Shots on Record
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It is called 'The Intellectual Peach Parer.'
What Katy Did at School
9
Historical Society's exhibition of apple parers.
The new yorker
10
We equipped them with apple parers, corers and slicers and set them to work in the basement of the haymaker.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
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They also had stone hoes and spades, while the women used short pickers or parers about a foot long and five inches wide.
The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
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Mr. Charles Lamed Robinson, a member of the Union League, had collected parers as a hobby, and gave twenty of them to the Society.
The new yorker
Frequent collocations
Parer through the time