Definitions
cut small bits or pare shavings from
Word origin
From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English þwītan (“to strike down, whittle”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twey- (“to shake, hurl, toss”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”), Ancient Greek σείω (seíō, “I shake”). Related to thwite and thwaite.
Used in a sentence
“Rude whittles.”
“The Sheffield whittle was the common knife of the country, which every one carried for general purposes, who was not entitled by rank to wear a sword.”
“When men are well whitled, their toungs run at randome”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Carve away”7 letters
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