Definition of "whittled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of whittle. (verb)

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• "The stock looked like it was whittled from a plank instead of a blank, so I purchased another "95% completed" stock and did the outside shaping myself, but another fellow inletted the barreled action."
• "THE Miyamoto Musashi, for his most famous battle, made a very powerful wooden sword whittled from a dead tree limb."
• "Or are these things that then get kind of whittled away as politics?"