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whittle
1552, "to cut thin shavings from (something) with a knife," from M.E.
whittel
"a knife" (1404), variant of
thwittle
(1390), from O.E.
þwitan
"to cut," from P.Gmc.
*thwitanan
(cf. O.N.
þveita
"to hew"). Fig. sense is attested from 1746.
