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  • noun One who whittles.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime)

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Examples

  • If you are like me, that is possible yet not pleasing, because I'm not so good a whittler, and most of my "make a spindle" efforts were not so successful.

    Archive 2009-07-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • If you are like me, that is possible yet not pleasing, because I'm not so good a whittler, and most of my "make a spindle" efforts were not so successful.

    Back to earth. a stitch in time 2009

  • In an exaggeratedly cheery voice, she said, Youve shown me what a good wittle whittler you are!

    Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

  • In an exaggeratedly cheery voice, she said, Youve shown me what a good wittle whittler you are!

    Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

  • I tend to ignore the Sun's propaganda section, having Jeeves remove it from the apartment with tongs, but yesterday I lapsed into reading the editorial page, and I'm still combing the sparks out of my hair after coming into contact with John Batchelor's D-Day elegy, whose grandiosity makes Victor Davis Hanson's essays look like the shavings of a front-porch whittler.

    Batchelor Fodder: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • In an exaggeratedly cheery voice, she said, Youve shown me what a good wittle whittler you are!

    Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

  • Why should it someone somewhere got a crown etc for their tireless efforts in setting up the various bits and pieces only to walk away and let it fall apart. ps who are BTP on June 19, 2006 at 6: 42 pm | Reply whittler

    Things that don’t work « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • Both his academic background and commercial writing experience had trained him to start from the outside in: that is, to structure the tale, research the characters and settings, and then write inward, the way a whittler carves a shape from a stick.

    A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

  • Then like a whittler, he pried away the folds of bark.

    Songs of the Humpback Whale Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 1992

  • In his sword-hand, he wielded a small clasp-knife, which did the alternate duty of a toothpick and a whittler, [K] for which latter amusement he kept a small stick in his left hand to operate upon; and the floor bore testimony to his untiring zeal.

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

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