Whittled
[hwɪtld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Whittle
Editor: Rosanne
Examples
- Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Thomas Blanchard, born in Massachusetts in 1788, while a boy, was accustomed to astonish his companions by the miniature wind-wheels and water-wheels that he whittled out with his knife. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I went with Musgrave to his study and whittled myself this peg, to which I tied this long string with a knot at each yard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- While on this voyage the conception of a revolving pistol came to him, and he whittled out a rude model of one with a penknife from a piece of wood. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The very knife with which a stick is whittled is a machine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Editor: Rosanne