Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut; whittle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, UK, dialect To
cut orclip with aknife ; towhittle .
Etymologies
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Anglo-Saxon. See whittle, and compare thwaite a piece of land.
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