Definition of "parings" [parings]

• Plural form of paring. (noun)

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• "They cost an arm and a leg, while barely being worth the parings from a fingernail, and it pisses me off."
• "Three things are said respecting the finger-nails: -- He who trims his nails and buries the parings is a pious man; he who burns these is a righteous man; but he who throws them away is a wicked man, for mischance might follow, should a female step over them."
• "It was not such ice as is usually found in bays or rivers and near shore; but such as breaks off from the islands, and may not improperly be called parings of the large pieces, or the rubbish or fragments which fall off when the great islands break loose from the place where they are formed."