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"ref": "2004, Alice McIntyre, Women in Belfast: How Violence Shapes Identity, page 57",
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"ref": "2004, “Don’t Hand Me Over”, in The Box Set 1964-2004(2004) No.2, performed by Christy Moore",
"text": "How do you fight back to get your right back to walk free down the street when your name and address singles you out for every Peeler on the beat?",
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"ref": "2011, Marie Brennan, With Fate Conspire",
"text": "Special Irish Branch was looking for Fenians in South Kensington; going from there to a Catholic church for Easter Mass was very nearly the stupidest thing Eliza could do, short of walking into Scotland Yard and cursing the peelers out in Irish.",
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"ref": "2013, James Benmore, Dodger",
"text": "It was Jem and Georgie that was in mortal danger, true, but there was not one of us that wanted the peelers asking us questions.",
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"ref": "2009, David Stradling, Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills, page 31",
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"ref": "2009, Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance During the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900",
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"ref": "2014, Karen Jean Matsko Hood, Halloween Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Halloween Recipes",
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"ref": "2012, Bee Wilson, Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat",
"text": "The OXO peeler was a game-changer. More than 10 million have been sold to date, and it threw open the entire market in peelers, causing numerous rivals to be invented: serrated fruit peelers, vegetable peelers with curved blades, Y-shaped and C-shaped and U-shaped peelers in any colour you desire (and many you don't).",
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"ref": "1985, E. Budziński, P. Bykowski, D. Dutkiewicz, Possibilities of Processing and Marketing of Products Made from Antarctic Krill",
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"ref": "1991, David Arthey, Colin Dennis, Vegetable Processing, page 52",
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"ref": "2002, George D. Saravacos, Athanasios E. Kostaropoulos, Handbook of Food Processing Equipment, page 253",
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"ref": "1965, Progress Report on the Cartographic Activities of the United States",
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"ref": "1986, United States International Trade Commission, Apple juice: report to the President on investigation no. TA-201-59 under section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974, page A-1",
"text": "Canning apples (\"peelers\") must be over 2-1/2 inches in diameter; peelers may have surface damage since they will be peeled in the process of making apple sauce or slices, but they must be round for the peeling machines to handle them properly.",
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"ref": "2008, Amos Nussinovitch, Water-Soluble Polymer Applications in Foods, page 52",
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"ref": "2012, Raymond H. Clark, Handbook of Printed Circuit Manufacturing, page 171",
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"ref": "1986, Ruth Scarborough Tate, Suzanne Tate, Duck Tales: Folk Tales and Anecdotes",
"text": "They bought peelers [crabs that would soon shed] and kept them in large wooden floats until the crabs shed.",
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"ref": "2007, Aliza Green, Field Guide to Seafood",
"text": "Once the crab has molted, the new shell takes about four days to harden. Just after shedding, the blue crab's shell is soft enough to eat. Watermen harvest soft shell crabs as peelers (about to shed), rank peelers (within hours of shedding) and busters (in the process of shedding).",
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"ref": "2013, Alan Vaughan, Mike Ladle, Hooked On Bass",
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"ref": "2010, Sam Bleakley, Surfing Brilliant Corners, page 174",
"text": "Fancy a wave, one of those little peelers?",
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"ref": "2011, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 465",
"text": "If he could ride a trend as well as he could ride a First Point Malibu peeler—well, that's how the game was played.",
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"ref": "2016, William Povletich, Some Like It Cold: Surfing the Malibu of the Midwest",
"text": "As the next five-foot peeler rolled by, Lee grasped his board and clenched his teeth.",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "éplucheuse"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "cholnār",
"sense": "person who peels food",
"word": "છોલનાર"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "miqšara",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "مِقْشَرَة"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "belačka",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "белачка"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "škrabka"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "schilmesje"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"word": "kuorimaveitsi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "épluchoir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "économe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kartoffelschäler"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "cholṇī",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"word": "છોલણી"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"word": "hámozókés"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "pīrā",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"word": "ピーラー"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "pust-kan",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"word": "پوستکن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "obieraczka"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kartofelečistka",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "картофелечистка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ljuštilica"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "škrabka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"word": "peladora"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"word": "potatisskalare"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lušpýlʹnyk",
"sense": "kitchen utensil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лушпи́льник"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"peeler"
],
"word": "peeler"
}
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"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''One who peels.'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"peeler"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "peeler",
"trace": ""
}
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