| Text | Length |
| Improve the edge of | 19 |
| Fine oilstone | 13 |
| You might rub a knife across it | 31 |
| Work on the edge? | 17 |
| Use of oilstone | 15 |
| Take the strop to | 17 |
| Strop it! | 9 |
| Strop a razor | 13 |
| Sharpen, as a skill | 19 |
| Sharpen with a whetstone | 24 |
| Sharpen the carver | 18 |
| Sharpen skills | 14 |
| Sharpen as skills | 18 |
| Ready the machete | 17 |
| Put to an oilstone | 18 |
| Practice, so to speak | 21 |
| Polish one's skills | 23 |
| Perfect one's skills | 24 |
| Opposite of dull | 16 |
| Make sharp | 10 |
| Make more perfect | 17 |
| Make more acute, as one's senses | 36 |
| Make more acute | 15 |
| Make a knife sharp | 18 |
| It'll give you the edge | 27 |
| It might help you make the cut | 30 |
| Improve, as skill | 17 |
| Improve in small increments | 27 |
| Improve an edge | 15 |
| Grind, maybe | 12 |
| Grind, in away | 14 |
| Give the edge to? | 17 |
| Give an edge to? | 16 |
| Fix the carver | 14 |
| Do a cutler's job | 21 |
| Cutler's need | 17 |
| Aid in gaining an edge | 22 |
| Perfected | 9 |
| Whetted | 7 |
| Used a strop | 12 |
| Improved an edge | 16 |
| Fine-tuned | 10 |
| Made sharper | 12 |
| Made a point | 12 |
| Gave an edge to | 15 |
| Sharpened to a fine edge | 24 |
| Refined, as skills | 18 |
| Perfected, as a skill | 21 |
| Made edgier | 11 |
| Improved, as skills | 19 |
| Ground, in a way | 16 |
| Worked on a dirk | 16 |
| Used an oilstone | 16 |
| Used a whetstone | 16 |
| Took a strop to | 15 |
| Stropped | 8 |
| Sharpened, as a knife | 21 |
| Sharpened, a la Sweeney Todd | 28 |
| Sharpen-ed | 10 |
| Refined as skills | 18 |
| Ready for cutting | 17 |
| Perfected as a skill | 21 |
| Made sharp | 10 |
| Made more effective | 19 |
| Made keen | 9 |
| Keen edged | 10 |
| Improved, as a skill | 20 |
| Gave an edge | 12 |
| Gave a knife new life | 21 |
| Sharpener | 9 |
| Whetstone user | 14 |
| Sword sharpener | 15 |
| Barber, at times | 16 |
| Whetting device | 15 |
| Strop user | 10 |
| Stropping person | 16 |
| Stropper | 8 |
| Sharp-eyed one? | 15 |
| Sharp fellow? | 13 |
| Practicer | 9 |
| Perfecter | 9 |
| One working on the cutting edge? | 32 |
| One who strops | 14 |
| One who sharpens | 16 |
| One redefining the cutting edge | 31 |
| One perfecting | 14 |
| Cutler, at times | 16 |
| Blade sharpener, say | 20 |
| Puts an edge on | 15 |
| Whets | 5 |
| Perfects | 8 |
| Makes keener | 12 |
| Gets an edge on | 15 |
| Uses a whetstone | 16 |
| Sharpens, as skills | 19 |
| Sharpens, as a knife | 20 |
| Improves, as skills | 19 |
| Cutting-edge creators | 21 |
| Zeros (in on) | 13 |
| Whetstones | 10 |
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