Difference between Whittle and Pare

WHITTLE vs PARE: NOUN

Originally, a blanket; later, a coarse shaggy mantle or woolen shawl worn by West-country women in England.
A knife; especially, a large knife, as a butcher's knife or one carried in the girdle.
English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)
A large knife.
A knife; esp., a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife.
A kind of fine woolen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
Same as Whittle shawl, below.
A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.

Among the Maoris of New Zealand, the carved ornament or ornamentation about a door.
An obsolete form of. pair.

To fashion or shape in this way.
To reduce or eliminate gradually.
To cut or shape wood with a knife.
To cut or shape a piece of wood with am small knife; to cut up a piece of wood with a knife.
To cut small bits or pare shavings from (a piece of wood).

To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife; to cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a clasp knife or pocketknife.
To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; esp., to excite with liquor; to inebriate.

Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, rind, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away.
To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of
To reduce, as in quantity or size; trim.
To remove by or as if by cutting, clipping, or shaving.
To remove the outer covering or skin of with a knife or similar instrument.

To cut or dress with a knife; form with a whittle or knife: as, to whittle a stick.
To pare, or reduce by paring, literally or figuratively.
To intoxicate; make tipsy or drunk.
To cut wood with a pocket-knife, either aimlessly or with the intention of forming something; use a pocket-knife in cutting wood or shaping wooden things.
To confess at the gallows.

Remove the skin from
Synonyms Pare, Peel, Shave off. To pare is to remove the surface only with a knife or similar instrument; to peel is to pull off the skin or rind. “That is peeled which is deprived of a natural layer or integument spread over it.” (C. J. Smith, Synonyms Discriminated, p. 603.) The figurative uses of these two words are limited. Shave or shave off still seems figurative when not implying the use of a razor, and is controlled in its meaning by that original sense; hence it is always limited to dressing off the surface.
To remove by or as by cutting, clipping, or shaving: with off or away: as, to pare off the rind of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
To reduce by cutting away superficial parts; diminish by little and little; cut down.
To trim by cutting or shaving off thin slices or flakes from the surface or the extremities: as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof, or one's nails; to pare old or worn-out grass-land.

Slimmed, Lop, Shrink, Thwite, Narrowed, Gnaw, Chop, Prune, Chisel, Carve, Trim, Cut, Winnow, Fix, Pare

Com, Adjustment, Parry, Adjusting, Stop, Step, Reduces, Adjust, Shave, Reduce, Pare down, Skin, Peel, Trim, Whittle

Eliminate, Lay, Slimmed, Lop, Shrink, Thwite, Narrowed, Chop, Prune, Chisel, Carve, Trim, Cut, Fix, Pare

Tape, Fare, Com, Adjustment, Parry, Adjusting, Stop, Step, Adjust, Shave, Reduce, Pare down, Skin, Peel, Trim

Large chunks of startup money whittle away quickly.
Open letters, cut rope, splice wiring, whittle sticks?
That will whittle down your list of options.
Snow Story in which Whittle was the drummer.
Brancati FL, Whittle JC, Whelton PK, et al.
Dickey W, Ward M, Whittle CR, et al.
July: NEW Whittle Big Moments Blocks and more.
ERIK, SEAN WHITTEN, JENNIFER, LEIGH WHITTEN, MICHAEL, EDWARD WHITTLE, CHRISTOPHER, MICHAEL WHITTLE.
Peter Whittle withdraws from Ukip leadership race Peter Whittle who has pulled out of the race as a contender to replace Nigel Farage.
Whittle by Faith Winter is situated under the Whittle Arch.