What does "hone" mean?
Hone: To pine; to lament; to long. Lamb.
Additional senses
- 2.A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- 3.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. Tusser. Hone slateSee Polishing slate. -- Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.
- 4.To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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