well(-)sharpened, ppl. a.
| 1682 Dryden Mac Flecknoe 45 At thy well sharpned thumb from Shore to Shore The Treble squeaks for fear, the Bases roar. 1706 Watts Horæ Lyr. ii. (1727) 206 So whole Forests fall..by one single Ax, And Steel well-sharpned. 1871 B. Taylor Faust II. iii. 207 And let the knife, well-sharpened, fail not finally. |