pencil-sharpener
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The modern man will wave a cigarette instead of a stick; he will cut his pencil with a little screwing pencil-sharpener instead of a knife; and he will even boldly offer to be warmed by hot water pipes instead of a fire. I have my doubts about pencil-sharpeners even for sharpening pencils; and about hot water pipes even for heat."
- "‘Mr Sinnott, she has no use for another pencil-sharpener. When I was up with her breakfast I counted fourteen pencil-sharpeners.’"
- "And his editor and friend could never know in advance whether he was about to receive an outline for a new novel, play, or story, or a scheme for improving electric pencil-sharpeners."