[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.", "to form by whittling:to whittle a figure.", "to cut off (a bit).", "to reduce the amount of, as if by whittling; pare down; take away by degrees (usually followed bydown, away,etc.):to whittle down the company's overhead; to whittle away one's inheritance."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to whittle wood or the like with a knife, as in shaping something or as a mere aimless diversion:to spend an afternoon whittling.", "to tire oneself or another by worrying or fussing."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["British Dialect.a knife, especially a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Sir Frank,1907–96,English engineer and inventor."]}]