Meaning of cherry-pitter | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Essie brought me a cherry-pitter and some apricot jam and I gave her a patent bottle cover⟳ and one veal chop I did not need⟳ and so we were even.”

“Mark⟳ Twain claimed that women, if given enough time and hairpins, could build⟳ a battleship. Hairpins, also mighty useful as cherry-pitters, are growing scarce. You may prefer⟳ to substitute a fresh, strong pen point⟳ inserted in a clean⟳ holder—although these accessories, too, we regret⟳ to report⟳, are harder and harder to come⟳ across, as is a cherry-pitter like⟳ the one shown on 798.”

“In a room off the hallway he saw⟳ an old peach-peeler and a cherry-pitter and other kitchen gadgets on display, and he headed for them, feeling on the right track.”

“Cherries: Wash⟳ and dry fruit. Remove⟳ stems and pits (buy⟳ a cherry-pitter at a kitchen supply⟳ store).”

“Use⟳ a cherry-pitter, available at kitchen supply⟳ shops, or the tip⟳ of a vegetable peeler to remove⟳ pits.”

“There is also an unusual collection of old appliances including a cherry-pitter, mincer, and dough maker collected by Sam, a former household appliance designer.”

“Working over a bowl to catch⟳ any juices, remove⟳ the pits from the cherries with a cherry-pitter or small paring knife.”

“Use⟳ a cherry-pitter, a handy gadget, to plunge pits out of cherries.”

“To pit the olives, roll them on a flat surface to loosen the stones and then use⟳ a swivel vegetable peeler to extract them. Alternatively use⟳ a cherry-pitter.”

“The important feature in these arguments is the reliance on optimality considerations; it counts against the hypothesis that something is a cherry-pitter, for instance, if it would have⟳ been a demonstrably inferior cherry-pitter. Occasionally, an artifact loses its original function and takes on a new one.”

“Pit the cherries with a cherry-pitter or the point⟳ of a vegetable knife.”

“Remove⟳ the stems and use⟳ a cherry-pitter or cut⟳ the cherries in half to remove⟳ the pit.”

“If you buy⟳ cherries, you will need⟳ a cherry-pitter. This little chrome invention looks something like⟳ a dental tool and something like⟳ a debraining forceps.”

“There were the crates full of dangerous, coal-fired machines—an automatic clothes-washing machine, a cherry-pitter, and other devices whose nature I couldn’t even guess⟳ at.”

“While working on their Artifact Think⟳ Sheets (Fig. 7.1), students constantly played with the objects—rubbing a shaving-cream brush on their skin, flipping the handle⟳ of a cherry-pitter back and forth, fidgeting with an old camera to see⟳ how it worked, using a cuff-maker to create⟳ creases in paper (again and again and again).”

“Machines were no longer of any real interest⟳, and technological artifacts could be placed in museums without raising a desire for them in any viewer. They were simply curious objects from the past, like⟳ a tomahawk or a cherry-pitter that no one today really wants to use⟳.”

“Though my father had gone to great pains after the fire to restore⟳ all of the items that Richard Warren Hatch had given him, we were also a family of kids with modern kid needs. Next to the cupboard of breakfast cereal hung a Betty lamp, a wick-snipper, a cherry-pitter. The more my father collected and replaced, the more extreme the juxtaposition became: […]”

“Remove⟳ the pits from the cherries using a cherry-pitter, or halve and gently pull⟳ out the pit.”

“If you are planning to pit a lot of cherries, buy⟳ a cherry-pitter from a good kitchenware shop⟳—it will save⟳ you a lot of time.”

“By the way, here are three good ways to pit a cherry: […] use⟳ a cherry-pitter carried by some gourmet kitchen stores—a special tool invented just for this job!”

“YOU WILL NEED⟳ […] a cherry-pitter (or a small knife and a lot of patience)”

“You’ve got to pit a whole bunch of cherries, which is not the kind of task crabby cooks are drawn to. But here’s a tip⟳: Until Apple makes an app that’ll do the job for you, get⟳ yourself a cherry-pitter.”

“A cherry-pitter is handy for large quantities, and it works nicely on olives, too.”

“He placed a cherry in his mouth, considered kissing her, the cherry passing between them, but settled for watching her instead, enjoying her evident satisfaction at the clean⟳ workings of the cherry-pitter she’d mocked not an hour earlier as an accessory of the rich who don’t know⟳ what else to do with their money. ‘It’s a cherry-pitter. It pits cherries. How is that some wild extravagance?’”

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