Then the process of whetting the scythes is repeated.
The men stick the poles of their scythes in the ground, as they do in whetting them; then they take off their caps and hang them on the scythes, while their leader stands forward and makes a speech.
Poetic Edda, the stanza at the end from the Whettingof Gudrun.
His father was whetting the obstinate tool which he had been deterred from grinding properly by the ill-timed laziness of Sam.
In the distance he heard the cheerful sound of the mowers whetting their scythes, in the sweet air of June.
Against this Vortiporus Gyldas alsowhetting his toong, beginneth with him thus: "And why standest thou as one starke amazed?
Before we had ridden out of sight the Eagle's Cliff was black with zopilotes, hundreds clustering upon the pines, and whetting their fetid beaks over their prey, still warm.
Raoul was whetting a knife to skin it, while Lincoln was at some distance, carefully reloading his rifle.
But, behold, he doth again begin to see his own nakedness, and he perceives that the law is whetting his axe.
It is just to your duty, as the mower's whetting to his scythe, to make it for to do his work.
Not but he has his horrid eye upon us, and is whetting his infernal feathered dart every instant, as you see him truly pictured in that impressive moral picture, "The good man at the hour of death.
Even now he is whetting one of his smallest razors to clean wipe me out, perhaps.
That in these customs the whetting of the scythes is really meant as a preliminary to mowing appears from the following variation of the preceding customs.
There are others again, as already mentioned at page 32, the edges of which have been produced by the intersection of two facets only, and are yet so symmetrical and sharp, that whetting their edge on a grindstone would be superfluous.
With flint hatchets, the constant whetting was, however, no doubt less necessary than with those of the different kinds of basalt.
All the surrounding cottages were more or less scenes of the same operation; the scurr of whetting spread into the sky from all parts of the village as from an armoury previous to a campaign.
Tis Cain Ball," said Gabriel, pausing from whetting his reaphook.
She laid her hand on Herr Arne's arm and asked him: "How can it be that they are whetting such long knives at Branehog this evening?
I am in fear of the long knives they are whetting at Branehog," she said.
And then she turned to Herr Arne and asked him: "Why are theywhetting knives at Branehog?
Then spend an age in whetting thy desire, Thou needs't not hasten if thou dost stand fast.
THE BOAR stood whetting his tusks against an old tree.
The Fox, who happened to come by at the same time, asked him why he made those martial preparations of whetting his teeth, since there was no enemy near, that he could perceive.
All the surrounding cottages were more or less scenes of the same operation; the scurr of whetting spread into the sky from all parts of the village as from an armury previous to a campaign.
The Arrotino which Smollett so greatly admired, and which the delusive Bianchi declared to be a representation of the Augur Attus Naevius, is now described as "A Scythian whetting his knife to flay Marsyas.
Limber Tim rose up, and then the two men kept creaking, and screeching and whetting their great boots together, as they went, without speaking, and in single file down the hill towards town.
Every odd moment he could find he had the knife and stone out and was whetting away.
Fortune was whetting the darts she soon intended to hurl.
The poor creature screamed with agony, while the determined fellow kept whetting his knife.
He never liked to hear the bobolink sing, however, for he said it always reminded him of the whetting of a scythe, and that reminded him of spreading hay; and if there was anything he hated, it was spreading hay after the mowers.
One likes to hear the whetting of the scythes on a fresh morning and the response of the noisy bobolink, who always sits upon the fence and superintends the cutting of the dew-laden grass.
A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whetting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
