All 20 Uses
whet
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Sea Wolf
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- He whetted it up and down all day long.†
Chpt 9
- Every odd moment he could find he had the knife and stone out and was whetting away.†
Chpt 9 *
- Then he would put it on the stone again and whet, whet, whet, till I could have laughed aloud, it was so very ludicrous.†
Chpt 9
- Then he would put it on the stone again and whet, whet, whet, till I could have laughed aloud, it was so very ludicrous.†
Chpt 9
- Then he would put it on the stone again and whet, whet, whet, till I could have laughed aloud, it was so very ludicrous.†
Chpt 9
- Whet, whet, whet, it went all day long.†
Chpt 9
- Whet, whet, whet, it went all day long.†
Chpt 9
- Whet, whet, whet, it went all day long.†
Chpt 9
- Next morning, after breakfast, Thomas Mugridge began his whet, whet, whet.†
Chpt 9
- Next morning, after breakfast, Thomas Mugridge began his whet, whet, whet.†
Chpt 9
- Next morning, after breakfast, Thomas Mugridge began his whet, whet, whet.†
Chpt 9
- Still calmly, though my heart was going pitapat, I pulled out Louis's dirk and began to whet it on the stone.†
Chpt 9
- He went on whetting his knife.†
Chpt 9
- So did I. And for two hours we sat there, face to face, whet, whet, whet, till the news of it spread abroad and half the ship's company was crowding the galley doors to see the sight.†
Chpt 9
- So did I. And for two hours we sat there, face to face, whet, whet, whet, till the news of it spread abroad and half the ship's company was crowding the galley doors to see the sight.†
Chpt 9
- So did I. And for two hours we sat there, face to face, whet, whet, whet, till the news of it spread abroad and half the ship's company was crowding the galley doors to see the sight.†
Chpt 9
- There was nothing pretty about it, nothing divine—only two cowardly moving things that sat whetting steel upon stone, and a group of other moving things, cowardly and otherwise, that looked on.†
Chpt 9
- Whet, whet, whet,—Humphrey Van Weyden sharpening his knife in a ship's galley and trying its edge with his thumb!†
Chpt 9
- Whet, whet, whet,—Humphrey Van Weyden sharpening his knife in a ship's galley and trying its edge with his thumb!†
Chpt 9
- Whet, whet, whet,—Humphrey Van Weyden sharpening his knife in a ship's galley and trying its edge with his thumb!†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(whet) to increase a sense or desire
or: to sharpen a knife or other cutting edge - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)