On Monday, 25 September 2017 08:59:09 UTC+1, fred wrote:
Thats what we called the small hand held device with a blade used to sharpen a pencil.

My son, raised in s different part of the country, calls it a pencil parer and yesterday I heard his wife, from anothe part of the country, call it a pencil topper.

Any other names out there ?

At school we had this:-
http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/catal...E&gclsrc=aw.ds