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whit·tle

Audio Help [hwit-l, wit-l] Pronunciation Key verb, -tled, -tling, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.

2.	to form by whittling: to whittle a figure.

3.	to cut off (a bit).

4.	to reduce the amount of, as if by whittling; pare down; take away by degrees (usually fol. by down, away, etc.): to whittle down the company's overhead; to whittle away one's inheritance.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to whittle wood or the like with a knife, as in shaping something or as a mere aimless diversion: to spend an afternoon whittling.

6.	to tire oneself or another by worrying or fussing.

–noun

7.	British Dialect. a knife, esp. a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME (n.), dial. var. of thwitel knife, OE thwīt(an) to cut + -el -le

]

—Related forms

whittler, noun

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Whit·tle

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–noun

Sir Frank, born 1907, English engineer and inventor.

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whit·tle Audio Help   (hwĭt'l, wĭt'l) Pronunciation Key
v.   whit·tled, whit·tling, whit·tles

v.   tr.

1. To cut small bits or pare shavings from (a piece of wood).
2. To fashion or shape in this way: whittle a toy boat.
To reduce or eliminate gradually, as if by whittling with a knife: whittled down the debt by making small payments.

v. intr.
To cut or shape wood with a knife.

[From Middle English whyttel, knife, variant of thwitel, from thwiten, to whittle, from Old English thwītan, to strike, whittle down.]

whit'tler n.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
whittle

1552, "to cut thin shavings from (something) with a knife," from M.E. whittel "a knife" (1404), variant of thwittle (1390), from O.E. þwitan "to cut," from P.Gmc. *thwitanan (cf. O.N. þveita "to hew"). Fig. sense is attested from 1746.

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whittle
noun
1.	English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)
verb
1.	cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood"

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whittle [ˈwitl] verb

to cut or shape (eg a stick) with a knife

Arabic:	يَبْري، يَقْطَع بالسِّكّين
Chinese (Simplified):	削
Chinese (Traditional):	削
Czech:	ořezávat
Danish:	snitte
Dutch:	snijden
Estonian:	vestma
Finnish:	veistellä
French:	tailler au couteau
German:	(zurecht)schnitzen
Greek:	λαξεύω, πελεκώ
Hungarian:	faragcsál
Icelandic:	tálga, skera út
Indonesian:	meraut
Italian:	intagliare

Japanese:	削る
Korean:	(칼로) 나무를 깎다, 깎아서 만들다
Latvian:	drāzt (ar nazi); asināt
Lithuanian:	drožti, drožinėti
Norwegian:	spikke, skjære ut
Polish:	strugać
Portuguese (Brazil):	talhar
Portuguese (Portugal):	aparar
Romanian:	a ciopli, *a tăia cu cuţitul
Russian:	обстругивать
Slovak:	orezávať
Slovenian:	rezljati
Spanish:	tallar
Swedish:	tälja, karva
Turkish:	yontmak

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Whittle Audio Help (wĭt'l) Pronunciation Key
British aeronautical engineer and inventor who developed the first aircraft engine powered by jet propulsion in 1937.

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Whittle

Thwite\, v. t. [AS. [thorn]w[=i]tan. See Whittle, and cf. Thwaite a piece of land.] To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer.

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Whittle

Thwit"tle\, v. t. [See Thwite, and Whittle.] To cut or whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Palsgrave.

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Whittle

Whit"ile\, n. [Perhaps properly, the cutter (see Whittle, v.), or cf. whitewall, witwal.] (Zo["o]l.) The yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

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Whittle

Whit"tle\, n. [AS. hw[=i]tel, from hwit white; akin to Icel. hv[=i]till a white bed cover. See White.] (a) A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl. --C. Kingsley. (b) Same as Whittle shawl, below.

Whittle shawl, a kind of fine woolen shawl, originally and especially a white one.

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