Meaning

2 senses

  1. One who whittles.

    Avery was an avid whittler, and had a collection of intricately carved walking-sticks that few could match.

    someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime)

  2. A compact folding knife with two small blades at one end and a single larger blade at the other that folds between them and is sprung by the other ends of both springs.

Origin

From whittle + -er.

From whittle + -er.

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Forms

plural: whittlers
Singularwhittler
Pluralwhittlers

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedwhittle

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
whitherwhittlewhizwhoA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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