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Definition of Honing
1. hone [v] - See also: hone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honing
Literary usage of Honing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat: An Introduction to by Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage (1882)
"honing.—For honing, it is desirable to have two oil stones, one very fine for
finishing, and one somewhat coarser for Turning knife. honing. Stropping. ..."
2. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1900)
"A chest containing the following general tools and supplies retails at $750: saw,
oil-stone, 2 honing strops, 6 auger bit gimlets, hatchet, oil can, ..."
3. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin (1810)
"... gave two parts of the tithes of honing, and two parts of the tithes of a mill
here, to that priory, which Bartholomew his son, who held 3 parts of a fee ..."
4. The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany edited by Walter Rye (1873)
"74: buried at honing. 1 March, 1727, set. 64: buried at honing. of Catfield, died
of honing succeeded Benjamin Cubitt Thomas Cubitt, gent- 1762. ..."
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