Whittle

Definition

whittle /'wÇtl/ v ~ A (from B); ~ B (into A) (သစ္သားကို ဓားျဖင့္) ေရြသည္၊ ဖ်င္သည္။ whittling a tent-peg from a stick/a stick into a tent-peg. ❏ whittle sth away [ PHRV ] လံုးပါးပါးေစသည္။ ေလ်ာ့ပါး ေစသည္။ Inflation has steadily whittled away their savings. ❏ whittle sth down [ PHRV ] (ျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း) ေလွ်ာ့ခ်သည္။ The number of employees is being slowly whittled down in order to reduce costs.

Examples

1. ‘Excitedly
2. Vivienne raised her camera to capture the woman on film
3. then snapped some shots of an old man whittling a piece of wood.’
4. ‘Later when he swore off smoking
5. he took up whittling wood.’
6. ‘A willowy soldier leaned against a tree near where he stood
7. whittling a piece of wood.’
8. ‘With a jackknife
9. he whittled a point on a thin green stick pulled from a maple branch.’
10. ‘Seve cut his sticks to length
11. whittled a point in the slender end and drove it into the hosel - the round socket at the top of the iron head.’
12. ‘We were forced to hotfoot it to Borneo
13. where we lived on the edge of the jungle for the next twenty years
14. whittling wood into supposedly erotic shapes that we then sold as tribal trinkets.’
15. ‘Then
16. he painstakingly whittles each one a 10-inch handle with a kitchen knife
17. and waits till dark.’
18. ‘How many millions were spent whittling that piece of wet balsam
19. I've no idea; it means nothing and invites ridicule.’
20. ‘Her father just sat in a corner whittling a piece of wood.’
21. ‘He was whittling a piece of wood the size of his palm.’
22. ‘He volleyed as if he was using his racket to whittle wood
23. slicing this way and that and caressing the ball into submission.’
24. ‘The Americans of the volunteers joked about how whittling wood was an American habit.’
25. ‘I really like the spey blade
26. as it offers a long straight edge for doing really important tasks: things like whittling a sharp point on an old stick.’
27. ‘And many people obviously rely on the good old Swiss Army knife or one of its derivatives for everything from trimming nails and opening bottles to putting in screws and whittling firesticks.’
28. ‘It turns out it's whittling wooden figurines for schoolchildren.’
29. ‘He had given the horses some grain
30. and now he was whittling a figure out of a piece of wood.’
31. ‘Goddard explains: ‘Gradually we just whittled the novel away.’’
32. ‘Vast amounts are whittled away on such concepts as benchmarking and decentralisation
33. but urgent road projects are still being argued over at Oireachtas committees.’
34. ‘Gradually the lead was whittled down until there were only three points between the sides with a few minutes remaining.’
35. ‘Hundreds of hopefuls entered the competition and judges at Boss Model agency have whittled them down to 10 boys and 10 girls.’