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Whetstone
Whetstone Whet"stone`, n. [AS. hwetst[=a]n.] A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools. The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits. --Shak. Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor. --South. Note: Some whetstones are used dry, others are moistened with water, or lubricated with oil. To give the whetstone, to give a premium for extravagance in falsehood. [Obs.]

Meaning of Whetstones from wikipedia

- village and civil parish Whetstone, London Whetstones (stone circle), an ancient pagan monument in Powys, Wales United States Whetstone, Arizona, a census-designated...
- Sharpening stones, or whetstones, are used to sharpen the edges of steel tools such as knives through grinding and honing. Such stones come in a wide range...
- Rachel Marjorie Joan Whetstone (born 22 February 1968) is a British public relations executive. Whetstone was in charge of communications and public policy...
- deposit of a hard fine-grained rock named Novaculite, that could be used as whetstones to sharpen cutlery and tools. The range is located south of Interstate...
- George Whetstone (1544? – 1587) was an English dramatist and author. Whetstone was the third son of Robert Whetstone (d. 1557), a member of a wealthy...
- supply of rock from which whetstones were fashioned. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Whetstone Point "Jackson County Place...
- Underground station called Totteridge and Whetstone (Totteridge being to the west of Whetstone). Whetstone is around 7.8 miles north of Charing Cross...
- The Whetstones are, or were, a stone circle beneath Corndon Hill in the parish of Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire, Wales, near the border with Shropshire...
- early 1870s. Whetstones (also called hornfels) are contact metamorphic rocks useful for sharpening tools. Wheatstone Mountain Whetstone Mountain – 1927...
- The Whetstone benchmark is a synthetic benchmark for evaluating the performance of computers. It was first written in ALGOL 60 in 1972 at the Technical...