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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.

Synonyms
Examples for "topper"
Examples for "topper"
1
Will he replace John Bruton as the leading poll-topper in the State?
The Irish Times
2
You seem to me to have the making of an absolute topper!
Something New
3
The answer is in the feather topper used by the professionals.
The Irish Times
4
The boy inspected the old blue coat, the topper, and the worn gloves.
Bambi
5
Texas hit the stage with aplomb, launching straight into recent chart-topper In Demand.
The Irish Times
1
It is wonderful what a sharpener of the poor wits hunger is!
A Rough Shaking
2
The last thing I took from my bag was my pencil sharpener.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
3
One by one, I inserted the lead ends into the sharpener.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
4
They have paper and colored pencils and even a little sharpener.
The whole world: a novel
5
The notes seemed to keep time to the hand of the sickle- sharpener.
The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 2
1
The last thing I took from my bag was my pencil sharpener.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
2
At the Concordia Institute, in Conn., the electric pencil sharpener turns up missing.
The new yorker
3
Now her ass is about as inviting as a pencil sharpener.
Choke
4
His job there is that of head pencil sharpener, he says.
The new yorker
5
And I got a new pencil sharpener for our department.
The new yorker
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
3
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
8
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
11
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
12
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