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Paring   /pˈɛrɪŋ/   Listen
Paring

noun
1.
A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something.  Synonyms: shaving, sliver.
2.
(usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel.


Pare

verb
(past & past part. pared; pres. part. paring)
1.
Decrease gradually or bit by bit.  Synonym: pare down.
2.
Cut small bits or pare shavings from.  Synonym: whittle.
3.
Strip the skin off.  Synonyms: peel, skin.
4.
Remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size.  Synonym: trim.  "Trim the photograph" , "Trim lumber"



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"Paring" Quotes from Famous Books



... nibble—three pale blue canisters of book-binding tools? Then there were the bird cages, the iron hoops, the steel skates, the Queen Anne coal-scuttle, the bagatelle board, the hand organ—all gone, and jewels, too. Opals and emeralds, they lie about the roots of turnips. What a scraping paring affair it is to be sure! The wonder is that I've any clothes on my back, that I sit surrounded by solid furniture at this moment. Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles ...
— Monday or Tuesday • Virginia Woolf
... Theirs is the best bower anchor, the chain cable Which holds fast other pleasures great and small. Ye who but see the saving man at table, And scorn his temperate board, as none at all, And wonder how the wealthy can be sparing, Know not what visions spring from each cheese-paring. ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... simple for a girl vowed to the conscientious life and no fibs to wrench her ankle, if she'll wear high heels. All she has to do when walking in the street is to look out for banana peel; or an apple paring may do at a pinch. She launches herself upon it, with a skating movement. Her foot turns, and the deed is done. She can in this way produce a "strain," if not a "sprain"; and only doctors know the difference. The difficult part comes ...
— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... took the greatest pains to make everybody comfortable and happy. He was sure to bring in the biggest backlog and make the brightest fire. He read "the funniest fortunes" for the young people from the sparks as they flew up the chimney. He was the best helper in paring the apples, shelling the corn and cracking the nuts ...
— The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln • Wayne Whipple


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