| 释义 |
▪ I. parer|ˈpɛərə(r)|
[f. pare v. + -er1.]
a. An instrument for paring.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 98 A hone and a parer, like sole of a boote, to pare away grasse and to raise vp the roote. 1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 271 The women with short peckers or parers,..doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to raise vp the weeds, grasse, and olde stubbes of corne stalks. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch. xiii. (1833) 89 A sharp shoemaker's parer. 1883Lovett in Proc. R. Geog. Soc. 29 Jan. 68 The shoeing-smith..drawing this parer or gouge over the hoof.
b. A person that pares, in various senses.
1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. i. xx, There were parers, grounders, leather sorters, dyers, cutters, makers-up, and else. 1887Gissing Thyrza III. iii. 62 The old man must have..friends about him, and not cold-blooded pinchers and parers.
▪ II. parer
obs. form of parure. |