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Meanings of whittle (whittling) in inglês

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frank whittle
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frank whittle

English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)

frank whittle

Cut small bits or pare shavings from.

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Examples for "pare"
Examples for "pare"
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The infusion helped Jet pare down debt and fight growing domestic competition.
Reuters
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No wonder the French public fiercely resists attempts to pare it back.
The Irish Times
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Cut the okra in thin slices, and pare and slice the tomatoes.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
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An added advantage of this strategy would be to pare housing-related debt.
Reuters
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Select pears of uniform size and then pare and cut in half.
Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book / Numerous New Recipes Based on Present ...
Usage of whittling in inglês
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Mother was in the kitchen; Father at the front door, aimlessly whittling.
The Innocents: A Story for Lovers
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Two little boys sat on the fence whittling arrows one fine day.
The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth ...
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Because he said so; before he wouldn't say anything, and began whittling.
The Debtor: A Novel
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And we whittle them down, with David doing most of the whittling.
The new yorker
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He'd nearly sliced off one of his fingers whittling her a cat.
The Bone Doll's Twin
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He holds a wooden stick, which he is whittling with a jackknife.
Entertainments for Home, Church and School
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All the time you're whittling your conscience away-ifever you had any.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
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Y'all don't cut yourselves. They nodded, bent low over their whittling again.
The devil's bones: a body farm novel
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Critics say that Xi has been whittling away Bo's power base ever since.
The Guardian
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But Olof sits deep in thought, whittling at the handle of a spade.
The Song of the Blood-Red Flower
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It will take careful whittling and shaping, and that will take some time.
The Plains of Passage
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The Celebrity was seated on the beach, and he was whittling.
The Celebrity, Volume 04
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Many of them carried sharp pocket knives, and passed their time in whittling.
Stories of American Life and Adventure
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The General, still whittling his pine stick, began to stare curiously at them.
Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond
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This means multiple management fees, insurance premiums and paperwork whittling down super balances.
News.com.au
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Mr. Poynter perversely went on whittling out the hollow of his wildwood pipe.
Diane of the Green Van
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Translations for whittling
Whittling through the time
Whittling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common