Usually means: Removing outer layer, typically thin.
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  1. paring: Merriam-Webster
  2. paring: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. paring: Collins English Dictionary
  4. paring: Vocabulary.com
  5. Paring, paring: Wordnik
  6. paring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. paring: Wiktionary
  8. paring: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. paring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Paring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. paring: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. paring: Rhymezone
  13. Paring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. paring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. paring: FreeDictionary.org
  16. paring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. paring: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. paring: Infoplease Dictionary
  19. Paring, paring: Dictionary.com
  20. paring: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paring: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paring: CCI Computer
  2. paring: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paring: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paring: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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(Note: See pare as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (paring)

noun:  A fragment or shaving that has been pared.
noun:  The cutting off of the surface of grassland for tillage.

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