Definition of "whittlings" [whit•tlings]

• Plural form of whittling. (noun)

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• "They started out as small whittlings for good luck that people would keep in a revered place in the home, or wear around the neck as amulets."
• "These whittlings on our rules, our values (torture, imprisonment for years without access to justice, warmongering, theofascism ...) our principles are like cuts in the barc at the base of a tree."
• "Sometimes, notwithstanding the snow, when I returned from my walk at evening I crossed the deep tracks of a woodchopper leading from my door, and found his pile of whittlings on the hearth, and my house filled with the odor of his pipe."