whittler
- a word derived from whittle.
Example Sentences
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Someone wished to burden the old whittler with more motivation, and tacked on a dead wife to boot.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
Or the Haida may have acquired it from an American whittler.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2011
Called Carving a Statue, it stars Ralph Richardson, who is a single-minded whittler.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A designer fashions a new shape, a whittler carves it in wood, and then it is mechanically mass-produced.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If you are a good, natural-born whittler you will find it a greater asset than a college degree.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association