paringn.

Brit.

/ˈpɛːrɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpɛrɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English pairyng, Middle English paringges (plural), Middle English paryngh, Middle English payring, Middle English–1500s paringe, Middle English–1500s paryng, Middle English–1500s parynge, Middle English– paring, 1800s parin' (North American); Scottish pre-1700 pairin, pre-1700 pairing, pre-1700 pareing, pre-1700 paryng, pre-1700 pering, pre-1700 1700s– paring, pre-1700 1800s pairin, 1800s– pairin', 1900s– pairn, 1900s– parin, 1900s– pearin; also Irish English (northern) 1800s pairin.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pare v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < pare v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

I. Senses relating to cutting (see pare v.¹ I.).

1. A thin portion or sliver pared off the surface of something, usually as waste; a shaving or peeling. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything > cut, broken, or fallen off

paring1314

chipping?c1400

parurec1400

pare?a1425

offals1538

off-shaving1565

clipping1579

peeling1598

pinching1688

whittling1854

1314 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 147 De paryngh in Estwood [sold 32s. 2d.].

a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 1050 (MED) Taillez ceo pain que est pare: Les bisseaus [glossed] paringes [v.rr. paringges, paring; trenchers] seint pur Deu done.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 1 Cor. iv. 13 As clensyngis of this world, we ben maad the paringis [L. peripsema] or outcastinge of alle thingis til ȝit.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 384 Parynge, or parow [read parowre] of frute, and othyr lyke, peripsima.

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) iv. vii. 61 The rynde or the paryng of this appel.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. E^v She will not part with the paryng of hir nayles.

?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) App. i. 25 What is left for mee but the paringes, when I have given others the peares?

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 140 Never was more truly verified that Proverb, Half the King's Cheese goes away in Parings.

1735 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack (1987) 1197 The King's cheese is half wasted in parings.

1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 278 To take her islands is to possess but the paring of her nails.

1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 169 The parings from road-sides, old banks, and linchets, ant~hills, &c., are burnt.

1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. i. 3 Sailing thereon a fleet of potato parings.

1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. v. iii. 238 The second method is to obtain the hair, nail parings, saliva or perspiration of the person to be harmed.

1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 10 Aug. 2 d A family of even two generates considerable waste material, including egg shells, coffee grounds, vegetable parings, fruit rinds, melon shells, [etc.].

2. The action of pruning or cutting off the edge, surface, rind, or superficial part of something. Also figurative: the action of removing superfluous or unnecessary material. Frequently with away, down, off.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > cutting off or away (with an instrument)

shearingc1315

paring1319

concision1382

shaving1390

thwiting1393

forcingc1440

trousing1512

trimmingc1525

circumcision1581

snipping1583

clipping1589

snip-snap1597

trim1608

whittling1614

collinga1628

shripping1635

snippery1639

undercuttinga1652

exscindinga1677

nipping1693

snip-snapping1906

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > cutting off > cutting off a thin surface layer

paring1319

shaving1390

thwiting1393

whittling1614

1319 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 147 In paryngh [of trees 2d.].

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 240 Euerich ȝere þe spray nedeþ kuyttyng and parynge and dischargynge of superfluite to springe and to bere fruyte þe bettre.

a1450 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 65 (MED) Item, for the fullyng, colouryng, and granyng redy to the payring, for j dosan, ij d.

1576–7 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 262 For xij sheepe skynnes vj^s. For paring and russeting of them ij^s.

1625 W. Laud Serm. preached at Westm. 18 There must be..a paring off of foolish and vnlearned Questions, yea, and of many Modal too.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 238/2 Coping-Irons are Instruments used in coping or paring of Hawks Beaks, Pounces, and Talons.

1789 B. Franklin Let. 26 Dec. in Writings (1987) 1177 The paring all Men's Noses might smooth and level their Faces, but would render their Physiognomies less distinguishable.

1839 H. Malcom Trav. I. ii. iii. 247 Their chief tool, and one used for all manner of purposes, from the felling of a tree to the paring of a cucumber, is the dah.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 528 The hoofs of horses have become less solid in consequence of continual paring.

1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. ix. 151 Screefing, or the paring away of surface vegetation with a mattock, may be practised where trees are very slow to get away..or where manure is applied.

1992 Amer. Film Jan. 51/1 This paring down is, however, brilliantly compensated for with flashbacks and narration that add depth.

†3. figurative. Parsimonious hoarding; niggardliness. Cf. cheeseparing n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun]

fastship?c1225

scarcenessa1300

scarcity1340

niggardyc1390

nithingheada1400

scarcehead1420

nigonryc1430

niggardship?a1439

pinching1440

straitheadc1450

straitnessc1460

niggard cheap1463

niggardnessc1487

nigonshipa1500

niggardise1502

niggishness1519

niggardliness1556

parsimony1561

illiberality1581

nearness1584

tenacity1586

Euclionism1599

paring1607

servilitya1610

niggeralitya1612

scanting1625

scant-handednessa1627

closefistedness1631

niggardess1632

close-handedness1646

strait-handedness1649

penury1651

unbountifulness1660

parsimoniousness1671

penuriousness1672

stinginess1682

closeness1712

illiberalness1727

meanness1755

cheeseparing1834

scrimping1835

churlishness1846

screwing1848

skinflintism1853

screwiness1856

flint-paring1860

skinflintiness1861

scrimp1864

flint-skinning1873

penny-pinching1895

skimping1898

tight-fistedness1975

1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme ii. sig. C3^v For all his clensing, pruning and paring, hee's not worthy a Brokers Daughter.

1882 E. J. Worboise Sissie viii. 78 That one is never the better for mere scraping, and paring, and saving.

†II. Senses relating to preparation (see pare v.¹ II.).

4. The action of preparing something, preparation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun]

yarkingc1000

forgraithinga1300

apparellingc1315

ordinancec1330

purveyancec1330

graithinga1340

purveying1340

providencea1382

making readyc1384

preparationa1393

paring1393

provisiona1398

parelc1425

apparelc1430

parelling?a1440

ablingc1450

munition1480

preparing1497

arraya1500

readyinga1500

repurveancea1500

ordaining1509

apparation1533

preparementa1538

apprest1539

preparaturea1540

preparance1543

order1545

apparance1546

prepare1548

fore-preparationa1586

ettlingc1600

apparelment1607

parationa1617

comparation1623

address1633

apparatus1638

prep1920

1393 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 156 (MED) Clerico panetrie..pro bulting et paring dicti frumenti, [etc.].

1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 114/1 After that the Vessels were so filled, yei had certein daies of boillyng and paryng, and by all yat tyme were filled atte lest thre tymes in the day, and in the nyght, so yat the saide Wyne had his true makyng, and trewe boillyng and paryng.

Compounds

C1. attributive with sense ‘used for paring’.

paring chisel n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > other chisels

grooping-ironc1440

grubbing-ironc1440

grubbling iron1530

ripping-chisel1659

paring chisel1675

ripping-chisel1679

flat chisel1688

burr1794

tan-spud1828

spud1846

dogleg1855

jagger1875

pointer1875

spade-chisel1895

claw-chisel1933

burr-chisel-

1675 R. Hooke Diary 8 Nov. (1968) Bought at Hayes in Wood Street 12 chistles and paring chisall 4sh.

1703 Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 76 The Paring-Chissel..must have a very fine and smooth edge.

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 365/2 Barton's paring chisels.

2002 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 17 June b6 He arranged his tools—mallet, paring chisels and smoothing planes.

paring gouge n.

ΚΠ

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Paring gouge.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 617/2 Paring gouge (Carp. etc.), a gouge having the bevel ground upon the inside or concave face of the cutting edge.

1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 39 A paring gouge is a long thin scribing gouge.

paring-iron n.

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

1491–2 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1890–1 (1891) 15 153 (MED) It., one paryng ire with one lyne.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 652/2 I pare a saffrone grounde, or aley with a paryng yron.

1610 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons Introd. 8 Itm paring iron, cheeping knives, tosting forke.

1855 P. Neill et al. Pract. Gardener's Compan. (rev. ed.) 243 The grass is kept short by repeated mowings, and the edges defined by clipping with shears, or cutting with a paring-iron.

1971 Man New Ser. 6 127/2 This volume is concerned with three subjects: the spade as an implement of tillage; paring and burning which was done with a paring-iron (not usually regarded as a ‘spade’); and peat-cutting where..peat-‘spades’ were used.

paring knife n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > other knives

bollock knifec1400

paring knife1415

spudc1440

pricking-knifec1500

shaving-knife1530–1

by-knifec1570

heading knife1574

stock knife1582

drawing knife1583

bung-knife1592

weeding knife1598

drawing knife1610

heading knife1615

draw knife1679

dressing knife1683

redishing knife1688

mocotaugan1716

skinning knife1767

paper knife1789

draw shave1824

leaf-cutter1828

piece-knife1833

nut-pick1851

relic knife1854

butch1859

straw-knife1862

sportsman's companion1863

ulu1864

skinner1872

hacker1875

over-shave1875

stripping-knife1875

Stanley knife1878

flat-back1888

gauge-knife1888

tine-knife1888

plough1899

band-knife1926

X-Acto1943

shank1953

box cutter1955

ratchet knife1966

ratchet1975

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > knife

dressing knife1362

trencher-knife1392

bread knife1432

kitchen knife1433

dresser knifea1450

carving-knifea1475

sticking knife1495

chipper1508

chipping knife1526

butcher's knife1557

striking knife1578

mincing knife1586

cook's knife1599

oyster knife1637

randing knife1725

stick knife1819

chopping-knife1837

carver1839

butch knife1845

fish-carver1855

fruit-knife1855

rimmer1876

throating knife1879

steak knife1895

paring knife1908

1415 in E. F. Jacob & H. C. Johnson Reg. Henry Chichele (1937) II. 47 (MED) Item, a pairyng knyf.

1562 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 177 iij augers, ij paringe knyves, ij Copers knyves.

1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 10 If e're a Monsieur of 'em all Make more fashionable Ware, I'le be content To have my Ears whip'd off with my own Paring Knife.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xxxix. 18 Her fore-head was high and wrinkled..; her nose long, sharp and aquiline;..and her chin peeked like a shoemaker's paring-knife.

1850–61 Trans. State Agric. Soc. Michigan 187 The timely removal of all lame sheep, and a proper application of the paring knife, &c., will go very far towards verifying the words of the proverb.

1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 768/1 Kitchen or paring knives... Length of blade, 3 inches.

1989 New Yorker 16 Jan. 30/1 With the point of a paring knife she cut out a window low in one side wall.

paring mattock n.

ΚΠ

1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 215 Each of these labourers must be provided with what I call a paring mattock.

2000 Re: chainsaws in uk.rec.gardening (Usenet newsgroup) 30 Oct. I was very glad today to have both my petrol driven chainsaws, bowsaw, paring mattock, long handled pruning shears, 20ft. ladder and ropes all in good working order.

paring plough n.

ΚΠ

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln v. 69 The Dutch paring plough of the Cambridgeshire fens.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 12 The Paring-Plough is a necessary instrument..in bringing into cultivation heath, moor, and other waste lands.

1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow xii. 171 After sheep we ploughed lightly with a Ransome's three-furrow paring plough.

1985 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 2: Eastern Europe (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 28 Aug. EE/8041/B/1 A particularly valuable aid was the supply in 1949 of 1,000 tractors, 540 lorries, 500 cultivators, 200 paring ploughs and 100 out-throw disc-harrows by the Soviet Union.

paring shovel n.

ΚΠ

1488 Cely Papers in Eng. Stud. (1961) 42 151 (modernized text) Paring shovel.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Paring shouell, or instrument to pare flores, valgium.

a1660 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais in Wks. (1664) II. 40 The paring-shovel of the Theologues.

1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell i. xv. 107 The Apprentice-Boys would soon knock them on the Head with their paring Shovels.

1855 W. Scott Waverley 211 He flourished the paring-shovel which usually made clean the steps of his little shop.

1986 R. E. Seavoy Famine in Peasant Societies 56 Removing the turf before plowing was called paring and burning... A paring shovel (breast plow) was pushed by a man using the leverage of his thighs.

paring spade n.

ΚΠ

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved 69 There is another Toole or two as useful in these works, and no lesse necessary, and this is the Paring Spade, or dividing Iron.

1777 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 245 The..man with a paring spade took up a turf.

1853 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide 100/2 A stunted growth of heath indicates a part having been bared by the paring-spade.

1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. i. iii. 29 The ‘pare’ were cut into squares, that is ‘pricked out’ with the sharp edge of the paring spade, and then lifted off with the shovel.

C2.

paring bee n. North American (now rare) a social gathering at which apples are peeled for drying.

ΚΠ

1830 J. Pickering Emigration 72 A paring ‘bee’, or ‘be’, [is] an assemblage of neighbours invited to one house, to prepare apples for drying.

1888 J. Q. Bittinger Hist. Haverhill (New Hampsh.) 359 Quite an incident was the paring~bee in bringing young folks together. The..young men mounted the paring machines and peeled the apples, whilst the..young ladies quartered and cored them.

1933 E. C. Guillet Early Life Upper Canada 195 A paring bee produced large numbers of strings of dried apples, and these were suspended from the ceiling of kitchen or attic.

paring frolic n. North American rare = paring bee n.

ΚΠ

1931 V. P. Seary Romance Marit. Provinces 177 Another sort of frolic was the ‘paring frolic’, when young men and girls gathered to pare and slice apples, that they might be dried out and kept throughout the winter.

† paring place n. Obsolete (perhaps) the castor of a horse.

ΚΠ

1693 London Gaz. No. 2935/4 A black [Gelding]..with a swelling on the Paring place of the far hind Leg.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	paring
释义	paringn. Brit. /ˈpɛːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɛrɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English pairyng, Middle English paringges (plural), Middle English paryngh, Middle English payring, Middle English–1500s paringe, Middle English–1500s paryng, Middle English–1500s parynge, Middle English– paring, 1800s parin' (North American); Scottish pre-1700 pairin, pre-1700 pairing, pre-1700 pareing, pre-1700 paryng, pre-1700 pering, pre-1700 1700s– paring, pre-1700 1800s pairin, 1800s– pairin', 1900s– pairn, 1900s– parin, 1900s– pearin; also Irish English (northern) 1800s pairin. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pare v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < pare v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. I. Senses relating to cutting (see pare v.¹ I.). 1. A thin portion or sliver pared off the surface of something, usually as waste; a shaving or peeling. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything > cut, broken, or fallen off paring1314 chipping?c1400 parurec1400 pare?a1425 offals1538 off-shaving1565 clipping1579 peeling1598 pinching1688 whittling1854 1314 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 147 De paryngh in Estwood [sold 32s. 2d.]. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 1050 (MED) Taillez ceo pain que est pare: Les bisseaus [glossed] paringes [v.rr. paringges, paring; trenchers] seint pur Deu done. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 1 Cor. iv. 13 As clensyngis of this world, we ben maad the paringis [L. peripsema] or outcastinge of alle thingis til ȝit. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 384 Parynge, or parow [read parowre] of frute, and othyr lyke, peripsima. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) iv. vii. 61 The rynde or the paryng of this appel. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. E^v She will not part with the paryng of hir nayles. ?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) App. i. 25 What is left for mee but the paringes, when I have given others the peares? 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 140 Never was more truly verified that Proverb, Half the King's Cheese goes away in Parings. 1735 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack (1987) 1197 The King's cheese is half wasted in parings. 1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 278 To take her islands is to possess but the paring of her nails. 1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 169 The parings from road-sides, old banks, and linchets, ant~hills, &c., are burnt. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. i. 3 Sailing thereon a fleet of potato parings. 1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. v. iii. 238 The second method is to obtain the hair, nail parings, saliva or perspiration of the person to be harmed. 1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 10 Aug. 2 d A family of even two generates considerable waste material, including egg shells, coffee grounds, vegetable parings, fruit rinds, melon shells, [etc.]. 2. The action of pruning or cutting off the edge, surface, rind, or superficial part of something. Also figurative: the action of removing superfluous or unnecessary material. Frequently with away, down, off. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > cutting off or away (with an instrument) shearingc1315 paring1319 concision1382 shaving1390 thwiting1393 forcingc1440 trousing1512 trimmingc1525 circumcision1581 snipping1583 clipping1589 snip-snap1597 trim1608 whittling1614 collinga1628 shripping1635 snippery1639 undercuttinga1652 exscindinga1677 nipping1693 snip-snapping1906 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > cutting off > cutting off a thin surface layer paring1319 shaving1390 thwiting1393 whittling1614 1319 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 147 In paryngh [of trees 2d.]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 240 Euerich ȝere þe spray nedeþ kuyttyng and parynge and dischargynge of superfluite to springe and to bere fruyte þe bettre. a1450 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 65 (MED) Item, for the fullyng, colouryng, and granyng redy to the payring, for j dosan, ij d. 1576–7 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 262 For xij sheepe skynnes vj^s. For paring and russeting of them ij^s. 1625 W. Laud Serm. preached at Westm. 18 There must be..a paring off of foolish and vnlearned Questions, yea, and of many Modal too. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 238/2 Coping-Irons are Instruments used in coping or paring of Hawks Beaks, Pounces, and Talons. 1789 B. Franklin Let. 26 Dec. in Writings (1987) 1177 The paring all Men's Noses might smooth and level their Faces, but would render their Physiognomies less distinguishable. 1839 H. Malcom Trav. I. ii. iii. 247 Their chief tool, and one used for all manner of purposes, from the felling of a tree to the paring of a cucumber, is the dah. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 528 The hoofs of horses have become less solid in consequence of continual paring. 1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. ix. 151 Screefing, or the paring away of surface vegetation with a mattock, may be practised where trees are very slow to get away..or where manure is applied. 1992 Amer. Film Jan. 51/1 This paring down is, however, brilliantly compensated for with flashbacks and narration that add depth. †3. figurative. Parsimonious hoarding; niggardliness. Cf. cheeseparing n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] fastship?c1225 scarcenessa1300 scarcity1340 niggardyc1390 nithingheada1400 scarcehead1420 nigonryc1430 niggardship?a1439 pinching1440 straitheadc1450 straitnessc1460 niggard cheap1463 niggardnessc1487 nigonshipa1500 niggardise1502 niggishness1519 niggardliness1556 parsimony1561 illiberality1581 nearness1584 tenacity1586 Euclionism1599 paring1607 servilitya1610 niggeralitya1612 scanting1625 scant-handednessa1627 closefistedness1631 niggardess1632 close-handedness1646 strait-handedness1649 penury1651 unbountifulness1660 parsimoniousness1671 penuriousness1672 stinginess1682 closeness1712 illiberalness1727 meanness1755 cheeseparing1834 scrimping1835 churlishness1846 screwing1848 skinflintism1853 screwiness1856 flint-paring1860 skinflintiness1861 scrimp1864 flint-skinning1873 penny-pinching1895 skimping1898 tight-fistedness1975 1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme ii. sig. C3^v For all his clensing, pruning and paring, hee's not worthy a Brokers Daughter. 1882 E. J. Worboise Sissie viii. 78 That one is never the better for mere scraping, and paring, and saving. †II. Senses relating to preparation (see pare v.¹ II.). 4. The action of preparing something, preparation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] yarkingc1000 forgraithinga1300 apparellingc1315 ordinancec1330 purveyancec1330 graithinga1340 purveying1340 providencea1382 making readyc1384 preparationa1393 paring1393 provisiona1398 parelc1425 apparelc1430 parelling?a1440 ablingc1450 munition1480 preparing1497 arraya1500 readyinga1500 repurveancea1500 ordaining1509 apparation1533 preparementa1538 apprest1539 preparaturea1540 preparance1543 order1545 apparance1546 prepare1548 fore-preparationa1586 ettlingc1600 apparelment1607 parationa1617 comparation1623 address1633 apparatus1638 prep1920 1393 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 156 (MED) Clerico panetrie..pro bulting et paring dicti frumenti, [etc.]. 1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 114/1 After that the Vessels were so filled, yei had certein daies of boillyng and paryng, and by all yat tyme were filled atte lest thre tymes in the day, and in the nyght, so yat the saide Wyne had his true makyng, and trewe boillyng and paryng. Compounds C1. attributive with sense ‘used for paring’. paring chisel n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > other chisels grooping-ironc1440 grubbing-ironc1440 grubbling iron1530 ripping-chisel1659 paring chisel1675 ripping-chisel1679 flat chisel1688 burr1794 tan-spud1828 spud1846 dogleg1855 jagger1875 pointer1875 spade-chisel1895 claw-chisel1933 burr-chisel- 1675 R. Hooke Diary 8 Nov. (1968) Bought at Hayes in Wood Street 12 chistles and paring chisall 4sh. 1703 Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 76 The Paring-Chissel..must have a very fine and smooth edge. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 365/2 Barton's paring chisels. 2002 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 17 June b6 He arranged his tools—mallet, paring chisels and smoothing planes. paring gouge n. ΚΠ 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Paring gouge. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 617/2 Paring gouge (Carp. etc.), a gouge having the bevel ground upon the inside or concave face of the cutting edge. 1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 39 A paring gouge is a long thin scribing gouge. paring-iron n. 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 1491–2 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1890–1 (1891) 15 153 (MED) It., one paryng ire with one lyne. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 652/2 I pare a saffrone grounde, or aley with a paryng yron. 1610 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons Introd. 8 Itm paring iron, cheeping knives, tosting forke. 1855 P. Neill et al. Pract. Gardener's Compan. (rev. ed.) 243 The grass is kept short by repeated mowings, and the edges defined by clipping with shears, or cutting with a paring-iron. 1971 Man New Ser. 6 127/2 This volume is concerned with three subjects: the spade as an implement of tillage; paring and burning which was done with a paring-iron (not usually regarded as a ‘spade’); and peat-cutting where..peat-‘spades’ were used. paring knife n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > other knives bollock knifec1400 paring knife1415 spudc1440 pricking-knifec1500 shaving-knife1530–1 by-knifec1570 heading knife1574 stock knife1582 drawing knife1583 bung-knife1592 weeding knife1598 drawing knife1610 heading knife1615 draw knife1679 dressing knife1683 redishing knife1688 mocotaugan1716 skinning knife1767 paper knife1789 draw shave1824 leaf-cutter1828 piece-knife1833 nut-pick1851 relic knife1854 butch1859 straw-knife1862 sportsman's companion1863 ulu1864 skinner1872 hacker1875 over-shave1875 stripping-knife1875 Stanley knife1878 flat-back1888 gauge-knife1888 tine-knife1888 plough1899 band-knife1926 X-Acto1943 shank1953 box cutter1955 ratchet knife1966 ratchet1975 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > knife dressing knife1362 trencher-knife1392 bread knife1432 kitchen knife1433 dresser knifea1450 carving-knifea1475 sticking knife1495 chipper1508 chipping knife1526 butcher's knife1557 striking knife1578 mincing knife1586 cook's knife1599 oyster knife1637 randing knife1725 stick knife1819 chopping-knife1837 carver1839 butch knife1845 fish-carver1855 fruit-knife1855 rimmer1876 throating knife1879 steak knife1895 paring knife1908 1415 in E. F. Jacob & H. C. Johnson Reg. Henry Chichele (1937) II. 47 (MED) Item, a pairyng knyf. 1562 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 177 iij augers, ij paringe knyves, ij Copers knyves. 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 10 If e're a Monsieur of 'em all Make more fashionable Ware, I'le be content To have my Ears whip'd off with my own Paring Knife. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xxxix. 18 Her fore-head was high and wrinkled..; her nose long, sharp and aquiline;..and her chin peeked like a shoemaker's paring-knife. 1850–61 Trans. State Agric. Soc. Michigan 187 The timely removal of all lame sheep, and a proper application of the paring knife, &c., will go very far towards verifying the words of the proverb. 1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 768/1 Kitchen or paring knives... Length of blade, 3 inches. 1989 New Yorker 16 Jan. 30/1 With the point of a paring knife she cut out a window low in one side wall. paring mattock n. ΚΠ 1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 215 Each of these labourers must be provided with what I call a paring mattock. 2000 Re: chainsaws in uk.rec.gardening (Usenet newsgroup) 30 Oct. I was very glad today to have both my petrol driven chainsaws, bowsaw, paring mattock, long handled pruning shears, 20ft. ladder and ropes all in good working order. paring plough n. ΚΠ 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln v. 69 The Dutch paring plough of the Cambridgeshire fens. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 12 The Paring-Plough is a necessary instrument..in bringing into cultivation heath, moor, and other waste lands. 1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow xii. 171 After sheep we ploughed lightly with a Ransome's three-furrow paring plough. 1985 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 2: Eastern Europe (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 28 Aug. EE/8041/B/1 A particularly valuable aid was the supply in 1949 of 1,000 tractors, 540 lorries, 500 cultivators, 200 paring ploughs and 100 out-throw disc-harrows by the Soviet Union. paring shovel n. ΚΠ 1488 Cely Papers in Eng. Stud. (1961) 42 151 (modernized text) Paring shovel. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Paring shouell, or instrument to pare flores, valgium. a1660 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais in Wks. (1664) II. 40 The paring-shovel of the Theologues. 1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell i. xv. 107 The Apprentice-Boys would soon knock them on the Head with their paring Shovels. 1855 W. Scott Waverley 211 He flourished the paring-shovel which usually made clean the steps of his little shop. 1986 R. E. Seavoy Famine in Peasant Societies 56 Removing the turf before plowing was called paring and burning... A paring shovel (breast plow) was pushed by a man using the leverage of his thighs. paring spade n. ΚΠ 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved 69 There is another Toole or two as useful in these works, and no lesse necessary, and this is the Paring Spade, or dividing Iron. 1777 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 245 The..man with a paring spade took up a turf. 1853 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide 100/2 A stunted growth of heath indicates a part having been bared by the paring-spade. 1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. i. iii. 29 The ‘pare’ were cut into squares, that is ‘pricked out’ with the sharp edge of the paring spade, and then lifted off with the shovel. C2. paring bee n. North American (now rare) a social gathering at which apples are peeled for drying. ΚΠ 1830 J. Pickering Emigration 72 A paring ‘bee’, or ‘be’, [is] an assemblage of neighbours invited to one house, to prepare apples for drying. 1888 J. Q. Bittinger Hist. Haverhill (New Hampsh.) 359 Quite an incident was the paring~bee in bringing young folks together. The..young men mounted the paring machines and peeled the apples, whilst the..young ladies quartered and cored them. 1933 E. C. Guillet Early Life Upper Canada 195 A paring bee produced large numbers of strings of dried apples, and these were suspended from the ceiling of kitchen or attic. paring frolic n. North American rare = paring bee n. ΚΠ 1931 V. P. Seary Romance Marit. Provinces 177 Another sort of frolic was the ‘paring frolic’, when young men and girls gathered to pare and slice apples, that they might be dried out and kept throughout the winter. † paring place n. Obsolete (perhaps) the castor of a horse. ΚΠ 1693 London Gaz. No. 2935/4 A black [Gelding]..with a swelling on the Paring place of the far hind Leg. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1314
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