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Answer for the clue "Whittlers' tools ", 9 letters:
penknives

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n. (plural of penknife English)

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Penknife \Pen"knife`\, n.; pl. Penknives . [Pen + knife.] A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.

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Usage examples of penknives.

Our equipment was a vast array of cameras, tape recorders, tents, sleeping bags, medical supplies, mosquito coils, unidentifiable things made of canvas and nylon with metal eyelets and plastic hooks, cagoules, boots, penknives, torches and a cricket bat.

This involved constructing some kind of brick oven outside, and then doing a lot of coming and going with bowls of boiling water, stopwatches, penknives and dismembered bits of the local wildlife.

The housemaid's hand had failed to give a look of order to the jumble of heterogeneous objects left on the dressing-table and on the mantelshelfpipes, penknives, pencils, keys, golf-balls, old letters, photographs, small boxes, tins, and bottles.

But then those girls had come with their little penknives, almost as if they'd stepped out of one of Jack's stories, and her attacker was dead.

People had begun making slits in the canvas with penknives to free those trapped underneath.