wettedadj.

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxii. 561 Clense each boord & Throne With wetted Sponges.

1720 Philos. Trans. 1717–19 (Royal Soc.) 30 1084 I touch'd the end A with a wetted Finger.

1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 29 They sound the well, and..Along the line four wetted feet appear.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 402 The eggs are covered with a tough white skin, like wetted parchment.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. xvi. 221 He saw her sitting up in bed..her head bound round with wetted cloths.

1887 Harper's Mag. July 170/1 Spreading over it a strip of wetted paper.

1916 F. W. Lanchester Flying Machine from Engin. Standpoint 110 If the direct resistance is properly assessed on the basis of ‘wetted’ surface, whether we call it a surface coefficient or a skin-frictional coefficient is merely a question of terminology.

1958 Observer 11 May 13/4 The plan form of the ‘nicked delta’ or delta with the inner middle rear part cut out, was adopted to reduce to a minimum the ‘wetted’ area or part over which air flows, without reducing the part that does useful work.

1983 D. Stinton Design of Aeroplane v. 208 When an aeroplane is very clean and highly streamlined, parasite drag may be attributed to skin friction drag... For this we need to work out wetted area.