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Certain knife
Answer for the clue "Certain knife ", 5 letters:
parer
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Word definitions for parer in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a manicurist who trims the fingernails a small sharp knife used in paring fruits or vegetables [syn: paring knife ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, agent noun from pare (v.).
Usage examples of parer.
In his present state, the old man must at least have friends about him, and not cold-blooded pinchers and parers, who had come to dislike him because of his relation to the Trent girls.
We equipped them with apple parers, corers and slicers and set them to work in the basement of the haymaker.
He'd laugh occasionally as he tried to figure out something -an eyelash curler or a broken antique apple parer that Rune bought because she thought it was a medieval weapon.