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The noun 'sharpener' is singular, a word for one.The plural noun is 'sharpeners'.
A pencil sharpener is un taille-crayon in French.
The "Love Sharpener", was designed by John Lee Love of Fall River, MA. Love's invention was the very simple, portable pencil sharpener that many artists use, the pencil is put into the opening of the sharpener and rotated by hand, and the shavings stay inside the sharpener. Love's sharpener was patented on November 23, 1897 (U.S. Patent # 594,114). Four years earlier
To make sharpening pencils easier. He invented the sharpener to minimize the use of knives for sharpening pencils
If it were, it would be rather difficult to lift, and probably too big to fit a pencil through. A pencil sharpener is more likely to weigh 50 grams, if it is one of a mechanical variety.