pencil-sharpener

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English

Noun

pencil-sharpener (plural pencil-sharpeners)

  1. Alternative form of pencil sharpener.
    • 1910, Gilbert K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, pages 147–148:
      The modern man will wave a cigarette instead of a stick; he will cut his pencil with a little screwing pencil-sharpener instead of a knife; and he will even boldly offer to be warmed by hot water pipes instead of a fire. I have my doubts about pencil-sharpeners even for sharpening pencils; and about hot water pipes even for heat.
    • 1969, William Trevor, Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, London: The Bodley Head, page 80:
      ‘Mr Sinnott, she has no use for another pencil-sharpener. When I was up with her breakfast I counted fourteen pencil-sharpeners.’
    • 1969 spring, Pascal Covici, Jr., “In Memoriam: John Steinbeck”, in Steinbeck Newsletter, volume II, number 1, page 18:
      And his editor and friend could never know in advance whether he was about to receive an outline for a new novel, play, or story, or a scheme for improving electric pencil-sharpeners.
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