parin

"Lor 'now, chile, I wuz des' parin 'you ter dat run in my min'," said Aun 'Jinkey in an awed tone.

Miss Lou Edward Payson Roe 1863

Woods-meetings will creep into churches, square sousing in the river will degenerate to the gentle baptismal sprinkle; no picnics or barbecues will delight the inhabitants with flying horses and fights, open fireplaces and sparking-benches will give way to stoves and chairs, riding double on horseback, with fair arms not afraid to hold tight against all dangers real or fancied, will be a joy of the past, "bean-stringin's," "apple-parin's,"

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Been parin ''em with a jackknife for fifty-seven years; and she soaks 'em out in a bowl of perfumery, jabs under 'em with a little stick wrapped in cotton, cuts off all the hang nails, files 'em round at the ends, and polishes 'em up so they shine as if they were varnished!

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

I sold'n a little donkey in the summer, and he's hoofs'll want parin 'again.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

'Twan't often anybody sighted her at wool-pickin's or apple-parin's or rag-tackin's, for she set up for a genteel, an' always washed dishes with, a mop.

Dialect Tales 1883

Bobbet's fallin 'on the apple parin' we could not go on with the work of paperin 'the meetin' house, and so the interests of Zion wouldn't languish on account of my absence for a day or two any way.

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

Bobbet, our dependence and best paperer, fell down on a apple parin 'and hurt her ankle jint, so's she couldn't stand on a barell for more'n several days.

Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 Marietta Holley 1881

Bobbet, our dependence and best paperer, fell down on a apple parin 'and hurt her ankle jint, so's she couldn't stand on a barell for more'n several days.

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

Southerners when put into print, as they sometimes were in rude burlesque stories, usually talked about "huskin 'bees" and "apple-parin 'bees" and used many other expressions foreign to their vernacular.

The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Edward Eggleston 1869

Ilka place has its ain shape, an 'maist things has to hae some parin' to gar them fit.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864