Usually means: Carve wood by shaving pieces.
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  1. whittle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. whittle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whittle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whittle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Whittle, whittle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Whittle, whittle: Wordnik
  7. whittle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Whittle, whittle: Wiktionary
  9. whittle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. whittle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whittle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Whittle: Dictionary.com
  13. whittle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. whittle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Whittle (name), Whittle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Whittle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whittle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. whittle: Rhymezone
  19. Whittle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. whittle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Whittle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. whittle: Free Dictionary
  23. whittle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. whittle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. whittle: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. whittle: Legal dictionary

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  1. whittle: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whittle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whittle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. whittle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See whittled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A knife; especially, a clasp knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
noun:  (archaic) A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
noun:  (archaic) A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Russell County, Kentucky, United States.

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