hone🔊

A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.

A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

To refine or master (a skill).

To make more acute, intense, or effective.

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

To grumble.

(dialect) To pine, lament, or long.

(Used to express sorrow, or grief.) +