paring knife

noun

: a small short-bladed knife (as for paring fruit)

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One piece of archival footage shows Stewart lambasting an employee behind the scenes for using a paring knife to cut an orange for Easter brunch. —

Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024 Paring Knife $49 Amazon $49 Hex Clad Everyone needs a paring knife for hulling strawberries, peeling apples, and any other delicate carving task. —

Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024 The 70 percent-off deal includes a chef’s knife, kitchen shears, a bread knife, santoku knife, six steak knives, two utility knives, and a paring knife, as well as a place to store them. —

Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024 Split biscuits in half horizontally by making a small cut with a paring knife and pulling apart with hands. —

Tiffany Vickers Davis, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for paring knife