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

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

v. To sharpen on a fine-grained whetstone.

v. To perfect or make more intense or effective: a speaker who honed her delivery by long practice.

phrasal-verb. hone in To move or advance toward a target or goal: The missiles honed in on the military installation.

phrasal-verb. hone in To direct one's attention; focus: The lawyer honed in on the gist of the plaintiff's testimony.

verb-intransitive. Informal To whine or moan.

verb-intransitive. Informal To hanker; yearn.

n. 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.

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

v. To sharpen with a hone.

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

v. To refine or master (a skill).

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

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

n. A kind of swelling in the cheek.

n. 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.

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

v. to render more precise or more effective.

n. 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.

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

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

To linger; delay.

n. Delay; lingering.

To pine; long; yearn; moan.

To long for; crave.

n. A kind of swelling in the cheek.

n. A circular barrow or hill.

A dialectal contraction of hosen, plural of hose.

See och hone.

v. sharpen with a hone

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

v. make perfect or complete

"(In the past, he's also offered fish such as sayori, needlefish, and hamo, daggertooth conger pike, an eel-like summer-season thing so bony that no one could figure out how to eat it until the people of Kyoto devised a special technique called hone-giri, to which Takayama-san has added variations of his own.)"

honed    honely    hones    honing   

whetstone   

german hone    sandpaper    swarf    grit    strop    steel   

honed    honing   

grumble    pine    lament    long    oilstone    whetston   

Bastogne    Bayonne    Capone    Cohn    Cologne    Dijon    Goan    Joan    Leone    Malone