单词 | parer |
释义 | parern. 1. A knife or other instrument for paring. Now frequently with modifying word, as apple, vegetable parer, etc.cob-, nail-parer: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > shaving or paring shavec825 shave-hook1432 paring-iron1491 spokeshave1510 shaving-knife1530–1 shaver1558 parer1573 stock-shave1794 inshave1875 over-shave1875 travisher1929 scratch stock1934 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 42v A hone & a parer, like sole of a boote: to pare away grasse, & to rayse vp the roote. 1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. C2 The women with short peckers or parers,..doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to rayse vp the weedes, grasse, & old stubbes of corne stalkes. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xiv. 208 A sharp shoe-maker's parer. 1883 Proc. Royal Geog. Soc. 29 Jan. 68 The shoeing-smith..drawing this parer or gouge over the hoof. 1891 Month 72 19 The apple-parer and knife-cleaner are American. 1992 Good Food (BNC) Dec. 88 Peel one of the oranges very carefully, using a vegetable parer or sharp knife. 2. A person who pares (in various senses). Now rare.heel-parer: see heel n.1 and int. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > one who or that which cuts carverc1380 clipper1567 parer1581 trimmer1583 snipper1611 whittler1839 the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person nithinga1225 chinch?a1300 nigc1300 chincher1333 shut-purse1340 niggardc1384 haynec1386 nigona1400 pinchera1425 pinchpenny?c1425 pynepenya1450 pelt1511 chincherda1529 churl1535 pinchbeck1538 carl?1542 penny-father1549 nipfarthing1566 nipper?1573 holdfast1576 pinchpence1577 pinch fistc1580 pinchfart1592 shit-sticks1598 clunchfist1606 puckfist1606 sharp-nose1611 spare-good1611 crib1622 hog grubber?1626 dry-fist1633 clusterfist1652 niggardling1654 frummer1659 scrat1699 sting-hum1699 nipcheese1785 pincha1825 screw1825 wire-drawer1828 close-fist1861 penny-pincher1875 nip-skin1876 parer1887 pinch-plum1892 cheapskate1899 meanie1902 tightwad1906 stinge1914 penny-peeler1925 mean1938 stiff1967 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise f. 126 Quhen ȝe condemne all eikeris and pareris of the scripture. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles I. xx. 245 There were parers, grounders, leather-sorters, dyers, cutters, makers-up, and else. 1887 G. Gissing Thyrza III. iii. 62 The old man must have..friends about him, and not cold-blooded pinchers and parers. 1990 Newsday (Nexis) 6 Apr. (News section) 6 Richard Kasparian is not a word parer. He believes you should never use one word when three will do. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1573 |
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