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Definition whittle
Etymology 1
From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English þw?tan. Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”)
Noun
whittle (plural whittles)
- A knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife.
Verb
whittle (third-person singular simple present whittles, present participle whittling, simple past and past participle whittled)
- (transitive or intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
- (transitive) To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
- (transitive, figuratively) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
Etymology 2
From an Old English word for "white"; akin to an Icelandic word for a white bedcover.
Noun
whittle (plural whittles)
- (archaic) A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
- (archaic) A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
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