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# whittle

«whittle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to cut small thin pieces off wood with a knife until it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (whittles, whittled, whittling)

### meaning for a pupil

To whittle is to cut small thin pieces off wood with a knife until it takes a shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whittle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a way of making things by hand in stories; the old man sits and whittles a toy; not used in maths

### examples

- The old man whittled a small wooden horse for the girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whittle/#x1)
- She whittled a long point on her stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whittle/#x2)
- He sat by the fire whittling a spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whittle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «whittle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whittle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.