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paring [′per·iŋ] (mechanical engineering) A method of wood turning in which the piece is trimmed or reduced in size by cutting or shaving thin sections from the surface. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There was the comb I had contrived out of the stumps of the king's beard, and another of the same materials, but fixed into a paring of her majesty's thumb-nail, which served for the back. Edward having obeyed him, he took an elegant little knife from his pocket, and paring his nails, continued: said Roker, appealing to another man in the lodge, who was paring the mud off his shoes with a five-and- twenty-bladed pocket-knife. |
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