See whittle on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1682 December 15 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, The Duke of Guise. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for R[ichard] Bentley […], and J[acob] Tonson […], published 1683, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 50:",
"text": "Novv if any man can be ſo unkind to his ovvn Body, for I meddle not vvith your Souls, as to ſtand ſtill like a good Chriſtian, and offer his VVeeſon to a Butcher's VVhittle, I ſay no more but that he may be ſav'd, and that's the beſt can come on him.",
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"text": "Rude whittles.",
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"ref": "1873, Alfred Gatty, Sheffield: Past and Present:",
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"text": "He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cut or shape wood with a knife",
"word": "veistää"
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"word": "tailler"
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"word": "schnitzen"
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"sense": "cut or shape wood with a knife",
"word": "farag"
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"sense": "cut or shape wood with a knife",
"word": "kifarag"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"note": "as a pastime",
"sense": "cut or shape wood with a knife",
"word": "faragcsál"
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"sense": "cut or shape wood with a knife",
"word": "intagliare"
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"sense": "cut or shape wood with a knife",
"word": "spikke"
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"word": "wyrzeźbić"
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"word": "выстругивать"
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"word": "karva"
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"word": "стругати"
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"word": "вистругати"
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"word": "vót"
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"word": "afknagen"
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"lang": "Dutch",
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"word": "verminderen"
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"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "leikata"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "karsia"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "wegschnibbeln"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "lefarag"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "megnyirbál"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "csökkent"
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"ref": "1554, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine:",
"text": "When men are well whitled, their toungs run at randome",
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"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "megnyirbál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "csökkent"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "umenʹšátʹ",
"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "уменьша́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svodítʹ na net",
"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "своди́ть на нет"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "reduce or gradually eliminate something",
"word": "tallar"
}
],
"word": "whittle"
}
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"ref": "1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:",
"text": "Her figure is tall , graceful , and slight ; the severity of its outlines suiting well with the severity of her dress , with the brown stuff gown , and plain gray whittle",
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"A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl."
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"A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one."
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"(archaic) A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one."
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"ipa": "/ˈwɪtəl/"
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