It is derived from the French parer to parry, and chute a fall.

It's about time you learnt your mistake, you old cheese-parer!

Guy said "Thank you" and began to turn the parer eagerly.

The countess remained looking at the parer for a time, then she raised her tearful eyes to the face of the empress.

No better nut-crackers and fruit-parers could possibly be found.

Nowadays they,'re only cheese-parers, that's what I call 'em.

I've been puttering around inventing new magnetos, potato-parers and the like, but this is my latest hobby.

It is called 'The Intellectual Peach Parer.'

Historical Society's exhibition of apple parers.

We equipped them with apple parers, corers and slicers and set them to work in the basement of the haymaker.

They also had stone hoes and spades, while the women used short pickers or parers about a foot long and five inches wide.

Mr. Charles Lamed Robinson, a member of the Union League, had collected parers as a hobby, and gave twenty of them to the Society.