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Whittlings   Listen
noun
Whittlings  n. pl.  Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a stick with a knife.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Whittlings" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sue said, while Bunny kept on brushing the tiny whittlings from his jacket and short trousers. And there was a queer look on the face ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony • Laura Lee Hope

... mended chair upon their shoulders for a sign, with pieces of white wood for further mending, a drawing-knife, a hammer, and a sheaf of rushes, and who sit down at your door, and plait the rush bottoms of your kitchen-chairs anew, and make heaps of fragrant whittlings with their knives, and gossip ...
— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells



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