Meaning of cherry-pitter | Babel Free

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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