Wiktionary
n. A thin-bladed knife intended for coring and pare (peeling) fruit such as apples as well as slicing small ingredient it is majorly used for detailed & controlled cutting.
WordNet
n. a small sharp knife used in paring fruits or vegetables [syn: parer]
Usage examples of "paring knife".
It was this drought, this tearlessness that brought those who could afford it to Schmuh's Onion Cellar, where the host handed them a little chopping board -- pig or fish -- a paring knife for eighty pfennigs, and for twelve marks an ordinary field-, garden-, and kitchen-variety onion, and induced them to cut their onions smaller and smaller until the juice -- what did the onion juice do?
That was okay by him because while Vinnie was occupied, Mick drove the blade of the paring knife into his chest He must have hit a main artery because blood began to fountain out of the wound almost immediately, and he had to jump back in order not to get drenched.
She set the picture back down on the counter, holding it up with her right hand and using her left - her smart hand - to bring the tip of the paring knife against the paper backing again.
The sharp paring knife rode in a scabbard on her belt, and was covered by the sweatshirt.
Ilna checked the silken noose she wore around her waist, then the hank of short cords she carried in her left sleeve, and almost as an afterthought the sharp, bone-cased paring knife stuck through her sash.
MARISSA PEELED THE LAST of the breakfast fruit with the wooden-handled paring knife, leaving the knife and rinds on her night table.
Terry was on top of her, and he was holding a paring knife that she had left on the counter.
Quickly he found it, a sharp paring knife, and grabbing it he stabbed the hand and thrust it down on the desk, its fingers curling as if reaching for the very blade.
She leaned one hand on the desk, whipped the paring knife out of her pocket with the other hand and plunged it into the left side of his chest with such force that only the handle protruded.