To whet means to rub on the surface of a flat stone to create a sharp edge
"He whetted his appetite!"
The unduly media attention to the case whetted the curiosity of common man
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That means a sharpened knife. The knife has been applied to a whet stone and is nice and sharp.
Comes from: Whetstone used to sharpen Blades such as knifes
AKA Shaman - 2011 Wetted Wings and a Whetted Wrist 1-7 was released on: USA: 1 June 2011
The beach in the winter
Definitions: wind: the movement of air whetted: sharpened knife: a blade, usually of metal Looking up the terms shows you that this comparison is saying that the wind blew so strongly that it felt like it was cutting.
The Industrial Revolution had led to widespread poverty in urban areas. The revolutions of the late eighteenth century had whetted people's appetite for representative government.
In Sea Fever, poet John Masefield wrote "I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, to the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife." Great old poems like that whet everyone's appetite for more
Weena is what amounts to the (Love Interest) in the novel The Time Machine. She is an Eloi Girl. ( the intellectual ruling class). In one of the movies she was played by svelte actress Yvette Mimieux. He meets her in the future world, she is sympathetic towards him. go and read the book, I hope I have whetted your appetite.
True.as well as making a number of Europeans quite rich. The new wealth increased the money supply and provided a class of investors. The Crusaders returning from the East also introduced Europeans to more modern business techniques such as bookkeeping.(ca. 1095-1204)