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paring

verb

Meaning

  1. To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
  2. (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
  3. To trim the hoof of a horse
  4. A fragment or shaving that has been pared.
  5. The cutting off of the surface of grassland for tillage.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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