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having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something
- I'll need a well-whetted axe to split the wood
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whetted
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past tense of whet
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“Whetted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whetted. Accessed 18 Oct. 2021.
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