<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object)<ul><li>To cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.</li><li>To form by whittling: to whittle a figure.</li><li>To cut off (a bit).</li><li>To reduce the amount of, as if by whittling; pare down; take away by degrees (usually followed by down, away, etc.): to whittle down the company's overhead; to whittle away one's inheritance.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>British Dialect: A knife, especially a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife.</li></ul>