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whetstone

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈʍɛtˌstoʊn/Part of speech nounSorted eehnosttwStarts with WEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives

Word origin

From Middle English whestone, whetston, whetesston, from Old English hwetstān, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjastain (“whetstone”). Equivalent to whet (“to sharpen”) + stone.

Used in a sentence

  • […]for alwaies the dulneſſe of the foole, is the whetstone of the wits.
  • It was as if a stone were ground to dust; as if white sparks flew from a livid whetstone, which was his spine; as if the switchback railway, having swooped to the depths, fell, fell, fell.
  • Near-synonym: hone (verb)

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