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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.

A Brief Guide to Feckless* Rifles 2009

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.

A Brief Guide to Feckless* Rifles 2009

THE Miyamoto Musashi, for his most famous battle, made a very powerful wooden sword whittled from a dead tree limb.

The Impossible Man - Ep.1 : The Employee, the Package, and the Oddity 2010

Or are these things that then get kind of whittled away as politics?

CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2009 2009

Are these things that then get kind of whittled away as politics ...

CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2009 2009

This is this list that I've "whittled" down to so far:

Archive 2007-02-01 Stephanie 2007

This is this list that I've "whittled" down to so far:

NY Times Notable Book Blog and Challenge Stephanie 2007

With others, more important or less easily imposed upon, he "whittled" sociably in the fence-corners, talked solemnly in conspicuous places, and always looked confidential and mysterious.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

By ten o'clock it was clear that M. Pierre de Witt was elected by a majority too large to be 'whittled' away, and that the surreptitious appearance of the Republicans in the field had served only to emphasize their political weakness.

France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861

Well, the Supreme Court finally, after a long time, kind of whittled away at that and said, yes, they have the right of habeas corpus.

Democracy Now! Democracy Now! 2010