whittle

noun · verbB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

whittles

1.
A knife; especially, a clasp-knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife.
2.
(archaic)A covering for a bed; sheet.
3.
(archaic)A coarse greyish double blanket worn over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
Đồng nghĩa: cape, mantle
4.
(archaic)A kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
Đồng nghĩa: whittle shawl
5.
(archaic, dialectal)A baby's flannel; a baby's woollen napkin; a flannel petticoat.

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verb

V_es/s

whittles

V_ing/Gerund

whittling

V_ed/pp

whittled

1.
(intransitive, transitive)(transitive or intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
2.
(transitive)To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
3.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.

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Đồng nghĩa

cape mantlewhittle shawl

Cùng gốc / liên quan

whittle awaywhittle downwhittle the whalebonewhittling

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English whittel (large knife), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (to whittle), from Old English þwītan (to strike down, whittle), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twey- (to shake, hurl, toss). Compare þveita to hurl, σείω I shake. Related to thwite and thwaite.