0 past simple and past participle of whittle
1 to make something from a piece of wood by cutting off small, thin pieces:
Most of these excess e's were whittled away in the course of the 17th century.
Given that the criteria for inclusion has been whittled away by these very serious limitations, it is exceedingly difficult to identify any audience for whom this bibliography can realistically cater.
Drugstore's expansive experimentalism fostered obscurity in a conflation of diverse marginal styles, while jazu-kissa whittled their singular collections down to perfectly contained and delineated generic repertoires.
By the time the 50p is received it will have been whittled away by the grabbing hand of galloping inflation.
Prices are soaring, racialism is raising its ugly head more boldly, education is being cut, and other social services whittled away.
They are in no wise whittled down or tampered with; but an anomaly is removed.
In the whittled down form it is true that this anachronism has an advantage to the accused which tips the scales in his favour.
The assessors whittled this down by certain disallowances to £13,600.
