"If I was as big as him," said one, "I'd fire all the peelers."
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford
If they're not fearing you, itself, the peelers in this place is decent droughty poor fellows, wouldn't touch a cur dog and not give warning in the dead of night.
"The Playboy of the Western World"
J. M. Synge
He sold everything from books to life insurance, from patent potato peelers to opera glasses.
"The Book of Business Etiquette"
Nella Henney