verb (old).—1.  To confess at the gallows. Also (thieves’) TO NOSE (q.v.), TO PEACH (q.v.).

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  1727.  SWIFT, Clever Tom Clinch, Going to Be Hanged.

        Then said, I must speak to the people a little;
But I’ll see you all damn’d before I will WHITTLE.

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  2.  See WHITTLED.

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