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paring [ˈpɛərɪŋ] n
(often plural) something pared or cut off ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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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