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a tiny guillotine that turns your pencil into a confession of how much you fidget.
means A device or tool that puts a fine point or keen edge on something, most commonly a pencil or a blade.
from From "sharp" plus the suffix "-en" (to make sharp, as in "to sharpen") and the agent ending "-er" (the thing that does it). "Sharp" is a deeply old English word, scearp, with cousins across the Germanic family — Dutch scherp and German scharf — all carrying the sense of a cutting edge. So a sharpener is, quite literally, "a thing that makes sharp."
- french origin
- Bernard Lassimonne patented the first one in 1828
- two-hole logic
- different sizes for pencils versus fat crayons
- shaving spiral
- the curl is the blade angle made visible
- electric overkill
- motors exist to do a wrist's job faster
- prison contraband
- the steel blade makes them banned inside
for instance
work sharp ken onion — electric sharpener favored by outdoor and survival knife enthusiasts since 2010