Word Meanings - WHITTLINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a stick with a knife.

• Stickled
  of Stickle
• Stickling
  of Stickle
• Stickleback
  Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, an
• Stickler
  One who stickles.
• Knifeboard
  A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
• Stick-seed
  A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
• Knife-edge
  A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.
• Sticktail
  The ruddy duck.
• Stick-tight
  Beggar's ticks.
• Sticking
  of Stick
• KNIFEEDGEKNIFEEDGE
  A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of File.
• KNIFESWITCH
  A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.

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