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Parer

noun

A manicurist who trims the fingernails.

A small sharp knife used in paring fruits or vegetables. Synonym: paring knife.

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"Parer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Aitchbone Apple parer Back of the rump Bain-marie Bain-marie pan Baked fish, Hollandaise sauce Basting spoon Bird roaster Boning knife Bread grater Bread pans Brown bread tin Buckets Cake box Carcass of mutton Carving knife and fork Chuck ribs Coffee biggin Coffee pot Colander ...

— Miss Parloa's New Cook Book • Maria Parloa

... looking at the parer for a time, then she raised her tearful eyes to the face of the empress. "I thank your majesty," said she, deeply moved, "for allowing me to see this letter. It will remain in history as a noble monument of Maria Theresa's rectitude. I have no longer a word ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... a kind of gypsies,—a mechanical and migratory race. A poet wants a home. He can dispense with an apple-parer and a reaping-machine. I feel this more for others than for myself, for the home of my birth and childhood has been as yet exempted from the change which has invaded almost everything ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)