Meanings of whittle a piece in English

Pete had begun to whittle a piece of wood.

Again, you could easily whittle a piece of wood thin and flat enough for this work.

With a great labourer's knife in her hand, she was solemnly whittling a piece of wood.

For a few moments the younger man remained very silent, as he whittled a piece of cedar wood with his sharp knife.

A middle-aged officer in undress uniform was sitting on an empty packing-case in front of his tent, whittling a piece of its wood.

Andrew Burr The Samburu goat herder whittled a piece of cedar near the basecamp where Brittany Griffith and three other American climbers were staying.

"There's plenty of 'em in these parts," said Tim, who was whittling a piece of wood at the time.