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 →

2) To whet an appetite is to make it stronger. tree →

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 →
• The smell whetted my appetite. tree →
• Whet the blade slowly and carefully. tree →

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;
• Who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a poisoned word;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «whet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.