Crossword clues for sharpener
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, agent noun from sharpen.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device for making things sharp. 2 (cx figurative English) That which makes something sharp.
WordNet
n. any implement that is used to make an edge sharper; "a knife sharpener"
Wikipedia
Sharpener an implement for sharpening, may refer to:
- Pencil sharpener
- Knife sharpening
- Honing steel, also known as a sharpening rod
- Sharpening jig, used to sharpen woodworking tools
Usage examples of "sharpener".
His desk, unlike the others in the antrum, thrown together and wobbly, was an elaborate sectional apparatus with automatic drawers, a pop-up typewriter, modular shelving and a built-in pencil sharpener that operated on batteries.
Inside was a little pencil sharpener and three pencils, two of which were now only an inch long, and a stapler and two pieces of paper with about fifty staples in them.
Among the most ingenious were pencil sharpeners that could also be used as earpicks, can openers as hair brushes.
They took plenty of notes and pictures, but gave us very little in return other than diagrams of electric eggbeaters, power operated shoehorns, pencil sharpeners and such.
I walked down the steps slowly, afraid I might fall and stab myself, but even more afraid that the knife sharpener 1 N S I L E N C E 151 would be gone.
The filleters would stop after every couple of jobs and run the knives over a sharpener, then get back to work.
Oh, they're not above peeing off a bridge, or stealing an occasional dime-store pencil sharpener.
He pointed to a wall where a vast variety of whetstones and other types of sharpeners hung from pegs.
After the advent of the designers, some pencil sharpeners looked as though they’d been put together in wind tunnels.
Trust me, I’ve been around since before most of your grandparents were buying their first tooth sharpeners, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned—” Kain then went into another coughing fit.
Holographic ads for everything from Slug-O-Cola to the latest in outerwear to the finest tooth sharpeners were festooned about the floorspace.
They were busy at their packs loosing extra arrows, fresh spearheads, sharpeners for the blades of knives.
I made it to the shuttle train, having successfully avoided the blandishments of a thousand hucksters selling everything from inflatable Neil dolls to talking souvenir pencil sharpeners to put a point on your souvenir pencils.
The stupid bastard was carefully stropping a dagger about as long as his forearm on a diamond sharpener, as if he was going to be using it on Posleen the next day.