To encourage a behavior or emotion.
To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
To poke, pierce, thrust.
To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
To stimulate or make more keen.
To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
The act of whetting something.
That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer.