<div dir="ltr">SuStel, you are right in that the parenthetical is meant to disambiguate. However, I believe it is meant to disambiguate the type of action the verb performs rather than to restrict objects of the verb. The various examples you cite bear this out. <div>be''etlh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Steven Boozer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> On 26 July 2016 at 21:30, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br>
> > (military term). chIp cut, trim (hair) is doing the same thing,<br>
> > telling us that this refers to hair-cutting and not other kinds of<br>
> cutting or trimming.<br>
><br>
> I interpret it as meaning "this refers to the kind of 'trim' that you<br>
> might do with a hair, i.e. cut it, as opposed to, say 'trim a uniform with<br>
> fur' or 'trim the control surfaces of a flyer' " -- along the lines of the<br>
> "fire (torpedo, rocket, missile)" versus "fire (employee)": just an example<br>
> object to clarify the action of the verb.<br>
><br>
> Ph.<br>
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</span>For the sailors on the list: to trim one's sails.<br>
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