parer
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Etymology
Origin of parer
First recorded in 1570–80; pare ( def. ) + -er 1 ( def. )
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They invented a flat broom, an apple parer, a circular saw and many other labor-saving devices.
From Time Magazine Archive
I skirmished around and found a little old-fashioned apple parer, the kind you fasten to a table.
From Time Magazine Archive
An apple parer saves a great deal of time and fruit, and is not very expensive.
From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Maria Parloa
Parminter, a tailor, is as obsolete as its Old French original parmentier, a maker of parements, deckings, from parer, Lat. parare, to prepare.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
The countess remained looking at the parer for a time, then she raised her tearful eyes to the face of the empress.
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
In his present state, the old man must at least have friends about him, and not cold-blooded pinchers and parers, who had come to dislike him because of his relation to the Trent girls.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
We equipped them with apple parers, corers and slicers and set them to work in the basement of the haymaker.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
Air, cooling, C. Pfanne 191,710 Apple parers, etc.,
For drying, we use the New York hop kiln, Rival No. 2 parers, and upright bleachers, all of which have been reasonably satisfactory.
From The Apple by Various
They also had stone hoes and spades, while the women used short pickers or parers about a foot long and five inches wide.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
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