Whittle

Noun

 * 1) A large knife.

Verb

 * 1)  To cut or shape wood with a knife.
 * 2)  To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).

Derived terms

 * whittle down
 * whittling

Thesaurus
amputate, ax, bisect, blade, butcher, carve, chop, cleave, cold steel, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cutlery, cutter, dagger, dichotomize, dissever, edge tools, excise, fissure, gash, hack, halve, hew, incise, jigsaw, knife, lance, naked steel, pare, pigsticker, point, prune, puncturer, rend, rive, saw, scissor, sever, sharpener, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, steel, sunder, sword, tear, toad sticker

Etymology
From whittel:, an alteration of thwitel:, itself from thwiten:, from  thwitan:. Compare Old Norse þveita:

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Russian:

Verb

 * Dutch:, , aanspitsen
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Polish: wystrugać, wyrzeźbić
 * Russian: выстругивать, вырезать
 * Swedish: karva, tälja


 * Dutch: afknagen,
 * Finnish:


 * Russian: уменьшать, сводить на нет