A device used to sharpen pencils by shaving the wood at one end.
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Examples for "topper"
Examples for "topper"
1Will he replace John Bruton as the leading poll-topper in the State?
2You seem to me to have the making of an absolute topper!
3The answer is in the feather topper used by the professionals.
4The boy inspected the old blue coat, the topper, and the worn gloves.
5Texas hit the stage with aplomb, launching straight into recent chart-topper In Demand.
1It is wonderful what a sharpener of the poor wits hunger is!
2The last thing I took from my bag was my pencil sharpener.
3One by one, I inserted the lead ends into the sharpener.
4They have paper and colored pencils and even a little sharpener.
5The notes seemed to keep time to the hand of the sickle- sharpener.
1It is derived from the French parer to parry, and chute a fall.
2It's about time you learnt your mistake, you old cheese-parer!
3Guy said "Thank you" and began to turn the parer eagerly.
4The countess remained looking at the parer for a time, then she raised her tearful eyes to the face of the empress.
5No better nut-crackers and fruit-parers could possibly be found.
1The last thing I took from my bag was my pencil sharpener.
2At the Concordia Institute, in Conn., the electric pencil sharpener turns up missing.
3Now her ass is about as inviting as a pencil sharpener.
4His job there is that of head pencil sharpener, he says.
5And I got a new pencil sharpener for our department.