sharpener

Synonyymisanakirja

sharpener

hiomakivi, jauhinkivi, myllynkivi, tahko, väline, työkalu, kynänteroitin, teroitin, hiomapuikko, kovasin.

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Englannin sanakirja

sharpener (englanti > suomi)

1. teroitin

sharpener englanniksi

1. A device for making things sharp.

There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom.

2. puhekieltä That which makes something sharp.

3. (w), The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain

“Sir,” said the shepherd, “poverty is a great sharpener of the wits. (..)

4. 1872, Chamberss miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts''

The snuff-box, knife, and chicken-bones were again in requisition, and a pen was successfully formed. The ink, or at least its substitute, was rather more difficult, but necessity is always a sharpener of intellect, and even this was accomplished.

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