Both Uses of
whet
in
Old Yeller
- It was good eating; but I'd had my appetite whetted for fried middling meat to go with it.†
p. 14.8 *
- All of them will turn on you at one time and here they'll come, roaring and popping their teeth, cutting high and fast with gleaming white tushes that they keep whetted to the sharpness of knife points.†
p. 73.6
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