Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An implement for sharpening the point of a lead-pencil or a slate-pencil.
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Examples
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Then it is boiled to prevent it splitting, rotated on a machine like a pencil-sharpener, and veneer half a millimetre thick comes peeling off the blade.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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In 1912, a pencil-sharpener salesman named Edgar Rice Burroughs published in a short novel ‘Under the Moons of Mars’ in All-Story Magazine.
Avatar Paul McAuley 2009
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When cut across the grain by the giant pencil-sharpener as the buds bubble towards the bark of the tree, their turbulence is displayed, with every little eddy and vortex held perfectly still.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Then it is boiled to prevent it splitting, rotated on a machine like a pencil-sharpener, and veneer half a millimetre thick comes peeling off the blade.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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In 1912, a pencil-sharpener salesman named Edgar Rice Burroughs published in a short novel ‘Under the Moons of Mars’ in All-Story Magazine.
Archive 2009-12-01 Lou Anders 2009
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When cut across the grain by the giant pencil-sharpener as the buds bubble towards the bark of the tree, their turbulence is displayed, with every little eddy and vortex held perfectly still.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Fantastico 1920s Spanish stapler and pencil-sharpener
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They have a line of premium reproductions of 1920s-era office tools, including a heart-stoppingly lovely stapler and pencil-sharpener (the pencil sharpener has a little window so you can peer into its guts and watch your pencil transformed).
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She called on him to hand out the new textbook, and as he got up to approach the desk he saw Gloria Reese drop her pencil-sharpener into the trash basket and bend down to retrieve it.
Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998
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At last; in desperation, the Crown Prince deliberately broke off the point of his pencil, and went to the desk where Miss Braithwaite sat, monarch of the American pencil-sharpener which was the beloved of his heart.
Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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