Hone

/hoʊn/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
3. (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
4. (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
5. (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
6. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
7. A kind of swelling in the cheek.
8. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.

Example Sentences

He also honed the procedure known as cut and fill - whereby the spoil from railway cuttings was used to build up embankments.

Huh? Training in your room under the torchlight / Hone that form to get you ready for the big fight

Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,

He lies pitying himself, honing and moaning to himself

Oh, hone! oh, hone! miserable wretch that I am! Do ye mak confession for me, Sir, and I'll say 't after you, as weel as I dow. Oh, hone! oh, hone!

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• hones
• honing
• honed

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