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.
A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief
To pine, lament, or long.
To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
To refine or master (a skill).
To grumble.
To make more acute, intense, or effective.
To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
A tuft or clump of grass.
A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.