Potato peelers, e.g

Usage examples of gadgets.

It goes to the wires and comes back because of some electrical urge in our gadgets here, and then goes across the street inphase with the original.

He found three, the three he desired, and from them removed various gadgets, part of which he stowed in his clothing, and part of which he put in a packsack which was in one of the cases.

Already, he had put that mind to work: first, devising a schedule of operations for the next year or so, and secondarily inventing gadgets to make survival easier.

Inherited his desk, his business, his gadgets, his enemies, his horses and his mistress.

Our worlds had scarcely touched except briefly when we met, and then we had talked a bit about horses, a bit about gadgets, a bit about the world in general and any interesting current events.

They contained two small black unidentified gadgets which baffled me and which I stowed in my pockets, and also a slotted tray containing a rather nice collection of small bears, polished and carved from shaded pink, brown and charcoal stone.

I said to put it on top of the desk, and I brought out all the other gadgets and stood them around in plain sight.

June looked rather wildly at the assembled gadgets and put her ear down to them.

June suggested she should tidy away all the gadgets and close all the drawers, and while she did that I investigated further the contents of the one drawer we left open.

I asked Annette that morning was whether my brother had had one of those gadgets that warned you if someone was listening to your conversation on an extension.