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Paring knife   /pˈɛrɪŋ naɪf/   Listen
Paring knife

noun
1.
A small sharp knife used in paring fruits or vegetables.  Synonym: parer.






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"Paring knife" Quotes from Famous Books



... prowling about department store basements, and household goods sections. He was always sending home a bargain in a ham, or a sack of potatoes, or fifty pounds of sugar, or a window clamp, or a new kind of paring knife. He was forever doing odd little jobs that the janitor should have done. It was the domestic in him ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... for they were soap bubbles. However, an entirely different complexion has been placed on the matter since my examination of your box before me on the table. Miss Burrell, I find in this box a small piece of castile soap from which some shavings have been left in the box and on the paring knife with which the ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas • Janet Aldridge

... blocks in front of them, with a round piece of hardwood, a fork, and a sharp paring knife. A stack of paper napkins was supplied, and individual pots of melted ...
— The Flying Stingaree • Harold Leland Goodwin



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