Whittle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A knife; especially, a clasp-knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife.

   “Novv if any man can be ſo unkind to his ovvn Body, for I meddle not vvith your Souls, as to ſtand ſtill like a good Chriſtian, and offer his VVeeſon to a Butcher's VVhittle, I ſay no more but that he may be ſav'd, and that's the beſt can come on him.”

2. fiil To cut or shape wood with a knife.

   “He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.”

3. fiil To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
4. fiil To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.

   “When men are well whitled, their toungs run at randome”

5. isim A covering for a bed; sheet.
6. isim A coarse greyish double blanket worn over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.

   “Her figure is tall, graceful, and slight; the severity of its outlines suiting well with the severity of her dress, with the brown stuff gown, and plain gray whittle”

7. isim A kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
8. isim A baby's flannel; a baby's woollen napkin; a flannel petticoat.
9. özel isim A surname.
10. özel isim An unincorporated community in Russell County, Kentucky, United States.