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To cut or whittle.

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  1. v. t. To cut or whittle.
  2. n. A small knife; a whittle.
  3. To cut or whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Palsgrave. A small knife; a whittle. [Written also thwitel.] [Obs.] "A Sheffield thwittle." Chaucer.
  4. To cut or whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Palsgrave.
  5. thwittle (plural thwittles) (obsolete) A small knife; a whittle. thwittle (third-person singular simple present thwittles, present participle thwittling, simple past and past participle thwittled) (obsolete) To cut or whittle.