" whet "

[Verb]  | "whet" | \ ˈ(h)wet \

1: to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone)

2: to make keen or more acute : excite, stimulate

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English whetten, from Old English hwettan; akin to Old High German wezzen to whet, waz sharp;

[Verb]  | "wet" 

1: to make wet

2: to urinate in or on

3: to become wet

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English weten, from Old English wǣtan, from wǣt, adjective;

[Noun]  | "whet" 

1: a spell of work done with a scythe between the time it is sharpened and the time it needs to be sharpened again

2: time, while

3: something that sharpens or makes keen:

Origin: circa 1628 ;

[Noun]  | "saw-whet owl" | \ ˈsȯ-ˌ(h)wet- \

1: a very small harsh-voiced North American owl (Aegolius acadicus) that is largely dark brown above and chestnut streaked with white beneath —called also saw-whet

Origin: 1834 ;

 From the supposed resemblance of its cry to the sound made in filing a saw;

[Idiom]  | "whet one's appetite" 

1: to make one hungry

[Verb]  | "whet" 

[Noun]  | "whet"