peeler

noun

Definition of peelernext
British
as in copper

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Recent Examples of peeler Beveling the edges of the potatoes with a peeler keeps them from crumbling as the jostle around the simmering pot, but skip it if you’re rushed or impatient. — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2025 The knife also incorporates a bottle opener on one side and a vegetable peeler in the middle of its handle. — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 17 Dec. 2024 Made in France, the set includes a 4-inch knife with a safety ring for proper finger placement, a finger guard and an easy-to-grip peeler. — Lanee Lee, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 Peel the turmeric and ginger with a vegetable peeler (wear gloves—turmeric root stains!), then grate into a medium saucepot. — Vogue, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for peeler
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peeler
  1. copper
  2. constable
  3. officer
  4. cop
  5. policeman
  6. trooper
  7. gendarme
  8. police officer
Noun
  • The gin is distilled in small batches using a copper pot still and features four main botanicals: juniper, coriander, angelica root, and licorice.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Half of the copper roof was torn off, and holes in what remained were letting in water, according to Victoria Rebeck, director of communications for the Northern Illinois Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of copper
Noun
  • On Friday, as residents gathered at the Bilal mosque for afternoon prayers, several constables, sheriff’s deputies and private security guards stood watch.
    — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The budget also covers the Health Department, sheriff's office, circuit court divisions, prosecuting attorney, coroner, constables, Office of Emergency Management, museum, Veterans Services and Cooperative Extension.
    — Eplunus Colvin, arkansasonline.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of constable
Noun
  • Logansport Police officer Cody Scott and his wife, Kylie Scott, were both charged with two counts of felony child neglect.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • According to a news release, the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit was notified Thursday after correctional officers discovered 21-year-old Lawrence Antonio Borom lying on the floor with apparent head injuries.
    — Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of officer
Noun
  • Billed as a mafia thriller and family tragedy, the six-part series turns on Anto, a Parisian cop of Corsican origin, who returns to his homeland with wife Vanina, to take over the family vineyard.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Things escalate quickly, and the cops and criminals engage in a shootout.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of cop
Noun
  • The killers included white policemen, sheriffs, businessmen, even a legislator—all part of the Jim Crow system aimed at disenfranchising Black voters.
    — Essence, Essence, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Johnson further sent a thousand military policemen and two thousand Army troops to escort the march.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of policeman
Noun
  • Then troopers and sheriff's deputies, some on horseback, attacked, beating people with batons and launching tear gas canisters.
    — Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 9 Mar. 2025
  • State troopers violently attacked the unarmed demonstrators with batons and tear gas — images that shocked the nation and prompted President Lyndon Johnson to give an emergency address to Congress.
    — Delano Massey, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of trooper
Noun
  • The resulting bloodshed brings the pair of goofy gendarmes into bewildered action, as the Zero cavalry trots in on short-legged white horses and Jony, Line, Rudy, and the local One leader, Jane (Anamaria Vartolomei), deploy on their respective sides.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Some, for example, may overcome their longstanding reluctance to send their own gendarmes to provide civil order in Gaza during reconstruction, as an alternative to taking Palestinians into their own country.
    — Carine Harb, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Definition of gendarme
Noun
  • Listen to this article A police officer at Yale University died this week after suffering some kind of a medical issue.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In Long Bright River, now streaming on Peacock, Seyfried plays Mickey, a police officer who works in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington at the height of the opioid crisis.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of police officer

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