Whetstone

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  • noun. A hard, fine-grained stone for honing tools.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A stone for sharpening cutlery or tools by friction. Whetstones are made of various kinds of stone, the finer kinds being, a silicious slate, and when used are moistened with oil or water.
  • noun. Figuratively, that which sharpens, stimulates, or incites the faculties or appetites.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.
  • noun. to give a premium for extravagance in falsehood.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.
  • noun. A benchmark for evaluating the power of a computer.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives
    • Word Usage
    "That was of plain black leather, but it included a pocket that had once held some small tool and recalled the whetstone pocket on the manskin sheath of _Terminus Est_."
    cross-reference
    grind  grindstone  hone  to give  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stone  
    Hyponym
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    hone  oilstone  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Mimi  bluebell  clockwork  dinner-dress  hedger  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    burr  hone  oilstone  rubstone  
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