noun. A fine-grained whetstone for giving a keen edge to a cutting tool.

noun. A tool with a rotating abrasive tip for enlarging holes to precise dimensions.

transitive verb. To sharpen on a fine-grained whetstone.

transitive verb. To perfect or make more intense or effective.

phrasal verb. To move or advance toward a target or goal.

phrasal verb. To focus the attention or make progress achieving an objective.

intransitive verb. To whine or moan.

intransitive verb. To hanker; yearn.

noun. A circular barrow or hill.

To linger; delay.

noun. A stone used for sharpening instruments that require a delicate edge, and particularly for sharpening razors; an oilstone. A hone differs from a whetstone in being of finer grit and more compact texture. See honestone.

noun. A thin piece of dry and stale bread; also, an oil-cake.

noun. A kind of swelling in the cheek.

noun. Delay; lingering.

See och hone.

To rub and sharpen on or as on a hone: as, to hone a razor.

To pine; long; yearn; moan.

To long for; crave.

A dialectal contraction of hosen, plural of hose.

noun. A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.

noun. See Polishing slate.

noun. one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.

noun. A kind of swelling in the cheek.

transitive verb. To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen.

transitive verb. to render more precise or more effective.

intransitive verb. To grumble; pine; lament; long.

noun. A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.

noun. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

verb. To sharpen with a hone.

verb. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

verb. To refine or master (a skill).

verb. To make more acute, intense, or effective.

verb. sharpen with a hone

noun. a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

verb. make perfect or complete

"Mays, I use the word hone, Mays practiced being Mays."

german hone  grit  sandpaper  steel  strop  

honed  honing  

whetstone  

Bastogne  Bayonne  Capone  Cohn  Cologne  

grumble  lament  long  oilstone  pine  

honed  honely  hones  honing