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Definitions
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)”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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