Whittle (Verb)
Meaning
Cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- She carefully began to whittle a makeshift point onto her walking stick as she continued down the wilderness trail.
- The patient elderly man spent hours whittling a delicate wooden bird from a single maple branch.
- As a child, he loved to sit by the fireplace and whittle wooden toys for his siblings.
- With a rusted pocket knife, she began to whittle the rough edge off a piece of driftwood she had found on the beach.
- After finding a suitable piece of wood, he spent the afternoon whittling a small figurine of his favorite animal.