Definitions for hone

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hone hone

Spelling: [hohn]

IPA: /hoʊn/

Hone is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in hone (ehno).

Definitions for hone

noun

1. a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
2. a precision tool with a mechanically rotated abrasive tip, for enlarging holes to precise dimensions.

verb (used with object)

1. to sharpen on a hone:
2. to enlarge or finish (a hole) with a hone.
3. to make more acute or effective; improve; perfect:

verb (used without object)

1. South Midland and Southern U.S. to yearn; long:
2. Archaic. to moan and groan.

Origin of hone

before 950; Middle English (noun); Old English hān stone, rock; cognate with Old Norse hein hone; akin to cone

Examples for hone

Richardson says that his frothy, buttered coffee is “the best part of his morning,” helping him “hone in on important tasks.”

When hone was held to bail it was seen that a crisis was at hand.

After the trials, it is manifest that hone was to be unassailed, do what he might.

The knife should be sharpened from time to time on the stone or hone.

They are published by hone himself, who I should have said was a publisher as well as was to be.

Kennan had a passionate, lifelong interest in the craft of writing, and the diary was clearly a place to hone his craft.

Then in 2007 he had joined the pro-Kremlin, pro “Eurasian” youth group, Nashi, to hone his militancy.

At first he balked when his record company suggested that he work with established songwriters to hone his compositions.

Each poet needs only learn to hear his own voice, and hone it, and present it.

English name for a stone appears in hone, now used only of a whetstone.