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Search phrase: paring-knife

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
The Merry Wives of Windsor	MW I.iv.20	beard like a glover's paring-knife?	Beard, like a Glouers pairing-knife?

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clip	pare, cut [as of the edges of a coin]
cuttle	knife used by pickpockets for cutting purses; bully, cut-throat
scorch	slash with a knife, gash
whittle	clasp-knife, carving knife

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carving knife	whittle
clasp-knife	whittle
knife used by pickpockets for cutting purses	cuttle
knife, slash with a	scorch
pare	clip
pickpockets, knife for cutting purses used by	cuttle
slash with a knife	scorch

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