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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
1H2O3N4E

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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