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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.
paring
Trimming or reducing in size or thickness, by cutting or shaving of small portions from the surface or extremity.
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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.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
Edward having obeyed him, he took an elegant little knife from his pocket, and paring his nails, continued:
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
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.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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