2. Wash and pare the apple, cut it into halves, and remove the core.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management"
Ministry of Education
pare off the skin; cut them into slices; dust with salt and pepper.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
It has become the fashion of recent years to break up the sward of the downs, to pare off the turf and burn it, and scatter the ashes over the soil newly turned up by the plough; the idea being mainly to keep more sheep by the aid of turnips and green crops than could be grazed upon the grass.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies