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# whet

«whet» in Mova's school dictionary: **to sharpen a blade by rubbing it on a stone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (whets, whetted, whetting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To whet is to sharpen a blade by rubbing it on a stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whet/#m1)

2) To whet an appetite is to make it stronger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a knife is whetted on a stone before it is used

### examples

- He whetted the knife on a great stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whet/#x1)
- The smell whetted my appetite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whet/#x2)
- Whet the blade slowly and carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whet/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [If a man turn not, He will whet His sword, He hath bent His bow, and made it ready;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.78/)
- [Who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a poisoned word;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1034/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «whet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.