"pencil-sharpener" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: pencil-sharpeners [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pencil-sharpener (plural pencil-sharpeners)
  1. Alternative form of pencil sharpener. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: pencil sharpener
    Sense id: en-pencil-sharpener-en-noun-xY4gzkTM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1969, William Trevor, Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, London: The Bodley Head, page 80:",
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