All 3 Uses of
whet
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- All the surrounding cottages were more or less scenes of the same operation; the scurr of whetting spread into the sky from all parts of the village as from an armoury previous to a campaign.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- Indoors nothing was to be heard save the droning of blue-bottle flies; out-of-doors the whetting of scythes and the hiss of tressy oat-ears rubbing together as their perpendicular stalks of amber-yellow fell heavily to each swath.†
Chpt 31-33
- " 'tis Cain Ball," said Gabriel, pausing from whetting his reaphook.†
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
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(whet) to increase a sense or desire
or more rarely: to sharpen a knife or other cutting edge