0 a machine or tool for making things such as pencils or knives sharper:
1 a device or tool for making something sharper, esp. pencils or knives:
a pencil sharpener
Two replacement toys were available if a child named one of these toys : an orange plastic pencil sharpener and a purple fleece ring with bars.
A student (the protagonist) gets up from his seat to sharpen his pencil and starts to walk across the classroom toward the pencil sharpener.
The first was what is going to happen to the handle of a carborundum sharpener.
They include pencil sharpeners, scissors, can openers and clocks that go backwards.
The weighers and sharpeners and inspectors will welcome at long last that this admirable supplementary scheme has been brought in to embrace all colliery workers.
They are supposed to be tallow chandlers or spur sharpeners or saddle grinders, but they have nothing to do with any trade at all.
What is the point of making a pencil sharpener look like a strawberry or a rubber shaped like a typewriter smell like bananas?
Attention has been called to the possibility of there being a handle and a sharpener not made of steel, but cemented together by a piece of steel.
