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• This can be done by rubbing away surplus metal with a grindstone, whetstone, oilstone, steel, ceramic rod, leather strop or the palm of your hand.
• The teeth of these people also, whatever they may suffer in their colour by chewing betel, are an object of great attention: The ends of them, both in the upper and under jaw, are rubbed with a kind of whetstone, by a very troublesome and painful operation, till they are perfectly even and flat, so that they cannot lose less than half a line in their length. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
• They include a whetstone from Norway, a bronze ringpin from Ireland, his sword with beautifully decorated hilt, a spear and a shield which survive only as metal fittings, and pottery. Viking chieftain's burial ship excavated in Scotland after 1,000 years
• He used a makeshift whetstone to sharpen both blades again.
• She had turned away from her mother to lash the butcher knife over the whetstone, though it had its edge, and she had said, `I am nice. DANSVILLE
• Sharpening a European scythe is a combination of hammering (called peening) and honing with a whetstone.
• Larger whetstones for sharpening iron tools were an important part of everyday equipment and were widely traded, especially since varying degrees of coarseness were required to produce a finely honed edge.
• Many cutting tools were sharpened with strickles or whetstones.
• This can be done by rubbing away surplus metal with a grindstone, whetstone, oilstone, steel, ceramic rod, leather strop or the palm of your hand.
• They're not "wet stones" but rather "whetstones" as in "whet: to make keen or more acute;" whet my appetite "; to sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone Learn To Sharpen Good Knives With Water Stones | Lifehacker Australia