All 22 Uses of
whet
in
The Iliad
- Let every man be sure his point is whetted, his shield well slung.†
Book 2 *
- Remember, though, your spirits like an ax-edge whetted sharp that goes through timber, when a good shipwright hews out a beam: the tool triples his power.†
Book 3
- He drew the pitiless bronze knife-edge hard across the gullets of the sheep, and laid them quivering on the ground, their lives ebbing, lost to the whetted bronze.†
Book 3
- How can you say we'd let a fight go by, ever, at any time when we Akhaians against the Trojans whet the edge of war?†
Book 4
- He vaulted quickly from his chariot, waving his whetted spears high overhead, as up and down he went, arousing war.†
Book 6
- And here is what I say—Zeus be my witness— if with his whetted bronze he cuts me down, my armor he may take away and carry aboard the long decked ships; not so my body.†
Book 7
- Piercing the bright shield, the whetted spearhead cut its way into his figured cuirass, ripping his shirt along his flank; but he had twisted and escaped the night of death.†
Book 7
- Aye, this night we'll guard ourselves, toward morning arm' again and whet against the ships the edge of war!†
Book 8
- He picked a tough spear capped with whetted bronze and made his way along the Akhaian ships.†
Book 10
- Last, two tough spears he took, with brazen spearheads whetted sharp, and that clear bronze reflected gleams of sunlight far into heaven, Athena thundered overhead, and Hera thundered honor in heaven to golden Myk&ne's lord.†
Book 11
- When she had said this, Iris veered away, and from his chariot Hektor vaulted down, shaking his whetted spears, making the rounds to put fight into Trojans everywhere and rouse a bloody combat.†
Book 11
- By heaven, arrows of mine are whetted differently.†
Book 11
- As when around a wild boar lusty hunters and hounds deploy, until the beast trots out from heavy thicket, whetting his white tusks against his lower jaws; the hounds go circling in to attack, and under the hue and cry a gnashing sound of tusks and teeth is heard; even so now, around rugged Odysseus, the Trojans ran.†
Book 11
- Tall Asios fell the way an oak or poplar falls, or a towering pine, that shipbuilders in mountain places with fresh-whetted axes fell to make ship's timber.†
Book 13
- Then Nestor chose a burly newly whetted spear, and stepping out he saw that grim day's work: Akhaians driven back, at bay; elated Trojans pressing on; the wall torn down.†
Book 14
- Sarpedon fell the way an oak or poplar or tall pine goes down, when shipwrights in the wooded hills with whetted axes chop it down for timber.†
Book 16
- But hour by hour the rest fought for the body, gripping whetted spears, dealing out death.†
Book 17
- Harvest hands were swinging whetted scythes to mow the grain, and stalks were falling along the swath while binders girded others up in sheaves with bands of straw—three binders, and lbehind them children came as gleaners, proffering their eager armfuls.†
Book 18
- Everything done to a young man killed in war becomes his glory, once he is riven by the whetted bronze: dead though he be, it is all fair, whatever happens then.†
Book 22
- With this he drew the whetted blade that hung upon his left flank, ponderous and long, collecting all his might the way an eagle narrows himself to dive through shady cloud and strike a lamb or cowering hare: so Hektor lanced ahead and swung his whetted blade.†
Book 22
- With this he drew the whetted blade that hung upon his left flank, ponderous and long, collecting all his might the way an eagle narrows himself to dive through shady cloud and strike a lamb or cowering hare: so Hektor lanced ahead and swung his whetted blade.†
Book 22
- There at once they pitched in, hewing hard with whetted axes at the towering oaks until they came down crashing.†
Book 23
Definition:
to increase a sense or desire
or: to sharpen a knife or other cutting edge
or: to sharpen a knife or other cutting edge