parer

Etymology

From pare + -er.

noun

  1. A tool used to pare things.
  2. (Ireland) A pencil sharpener.
    A: 'yea like I used to have all these little parers and little fancy girly parers but then I was like I'd probably get into trouble ... people would be like 'why do you have that'... so I went for a plain pencil parer'. 2013-12-06, Russell W. Belk, Linda Price, Lisa Penaloza, Consumer Culture Theory, Emerald Group Publishing, page 84

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