apple-parer

Count the cogs on the wheels of a fanning-mill, washing-machine, apple-parer, or egg-beater, and determine how the direction or rate of the motion is changed thereby.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

He can dispense with an apple-parer and a reaping-machine.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

The Yankee whittling a shingle with his jack-knife is commonly accepted as a caricature, but it is an unconscious symbolization of the plastic instinct which rises step by step to the clothes-pin, the apple-parer, the mowing-machine, the wooden truss-bridge, the clipper-ship, the carved figure-head, the Cleopatra of the World's Exhibition.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

They had been at everything, from an apple-parer to a steam-engine.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

And the buildin 'wuz seemin'ly all wrought of white marble, with statutes, and colonnades, and towers, and everything else for its comfort, and inside wuz every machine that wuz ever made or thought on, from a sassage-cutter and apple-parer to a steam engine in full blast.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

It was here that we made the acquaintance of a colored woman, a withered, bent old pensioner of the house, whose industry (she excelled any modern patent apple-parer) was unabated, although she was by her own confession (a woman, we believe, never owns her age till she has passed this point) and the testimony of others a hundred years old.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

It was here that we made the acquaintance of a colored woman, a withered, bent old pensioner of the house, whose industry (she excelled any modern patent apple-parer) was unabated, although she was by her own confession (a woman, we believe, never owns her age till she has passed this point) and the testimony of others a hundred years old.

On Horseback Charles Dudley Warner 1864

He can dispense with an apple-parer and a reaping-machine.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

He can dispense with an apple-parer and a reaping-machine.

The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851