Ecdysiast

Usage examples of peeler.

The peelers and mincers and pluckers found their places under tables, among the kitchen dogs.

The mincers, boners, pluckers, spit-boys and peelers fell on the leftovers like mice, then scattered again under tables, to the hearths, out of the way of the bakers and washers and the disgusted plucker who had to do pots, and who left trails of ash and grease behind her as she hauled dirty pots across the kitchen.

And guard of many a midnight reeler, None worthier, though the world is wide, Beloved Peeler.

I dreaded the prospect of zesting fifteen lemons with a traditional toola vegetable peeler, a zester, or an ordinary graterbecause I typically wind up on the verge of exhaustion, my knuckles also zested.

The protectee was trying to kill the protectors, thinking they were the people peelers.

You saw the cooking apparatus, the boilers, roasters, and steamers, the peelers, shellers, and choppers, which are so useful when food has to be prepared in quantity, but which are not worth buying for every isolated home.

But, if no obliging peeler Will arrest this midnight squealer, My own peculiar arm of might Must undertake the job to-night.

They be catching him, trying him and then the guillotine--Frogs bain't like our lily piss-arsed Peelers.

Peeler mumbled something unrepeatable, and even the normally imperturbable Chaa had a few choice words to say in his own language.

Peeler moved out in front, warier than ever, while Chaa placed himself between the rest of them and the tree.

Hodson (who'd fagged me at Rugby) and Macdonald the Peeler and Sam Browne and little Fred Roberts, who wasn't much more than a griff,41 but knew enough to hang around us older hands, warming himself in the glow of our fame.

Strangers ought to be called Unnaturals and should be pitied because they are the ones who need taxi rides and don't know the best place to eat or how to grow corn and have to pay a quarter to peek at peelers, as if molting blue crabs were some exotic creature like a panda bear or an anaconda.

Amid the general rick-rack -- tongs, peelers, graters, paring knives, and garbage-bag ties -- was a small treasure-trove of batteries, mostly C-cells and square nine-volts.

I had my by now well-worn high-carbon Sabatiers rolled in with the cheap school-supply junk: hard-to-sharpen Forschner stainless steel, peeler, parisienne scoop, paring knife and sheer.

Maureen and the Chief Potato Peeler, Kevin, were saving up to buy their own cafe.