Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cheese-pale .
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Examples
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Presently a peck would go home, and his enemy would drop down with a neat little circular hole in his forehead or skull, exactly similar to that which a cheese-scoop makes in a cheese.
Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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a cheese-scoop, so that the width of the part where it is scooped is about the same as the two flat sides.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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"I do not at present," said I, "require a knife with indispensable cheese-scoop and marmalade-shredding attachment.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917 Various
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