Read full poem →SEEING THE GREAT FLEET AND Com-
PARING IT WITH ROOSEVELT’S
AROUND THE WorLD ARMADA
Dictionary Entry
To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
In a Sentence
“Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
knife paringdown paringaway paring. paringoff paringknives paringparing sharpparing small
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Poetry examples for “paring”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the candle,
Or paring of paradisaical fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless,
Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow, of dark Maenefa the mountain;
Read full poem →finger-nail held to the candle,
Or paring of paradisaical fruit, | lovely in waning but
lustreless,