▪ I. parer
(ˈpɛərə(r))
[f. pare v. + -er1.]
a. An instrument for paring.
| 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 98 A hone and a parer, like sole of a boote, to pare away grasse and to raise vp the roote. 1600 Hakluyt Voy. III. 271 The women with short peckers or parers,..doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to raise vp the weeds, grasse, and olde stubbes of corne stalks. 1828 Moir Mansie Wauch. xiii. (1833) 89 A sharp shoemaker's parer. 1883 Lovett in Proc. R. Geog. Soc. 29 Jan. 68 The shoeing-smith..drawing this parer or gouge over the hoof. |
b. A person that pares, in various senses.
| 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. i. xx, There were parers, grounders, leather sorters, dyers, cutters, makers-up, and else. 1887 Gissing Thyrza III. iii. 62 The old man must have..friends about him, and not cold-blooded pinchers and parers. |
▪ II. parer
obs. form of parure.