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Word entry · 4 letters

hone

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"Sharpen skill"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /hoʊn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ehnoStarts with HEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. make perfect or complete

Word origin

From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)).

Used in a sentence

  • 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,

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