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Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..

Acuation :: Acuation (n.) Act of sharpening.

File :: File (v. t.) To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth..

Grit :: Grit (n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit..

Exacuate :: Exacuate (v. t.) To whet or sharpen.

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease..

Pickedness :: Pickedness (n.) The state of being sharpened; pointedness.

Sickle :: Sickle (n.) A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap..

Rub :: Rub (n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone..

Cutwater :: Cutwater (n.) A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself..

Acuition :: Acuition (n.) The act of sharpening.

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.

Keen :: Keen (v. t.) To sharpen; to make cold.

Abattis :: Abattis (n.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy..

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To make sharp.

Palisade :: Palisade (n.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense..

Rebate :: Rebate (n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood..

Sharpen :: Sharpen (v. i.) To grow or become sharp.

Whetter :: Whetter (n.) One who, or that which, whets, sharpens, or stimulates..

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To render more shrill or piercing.

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