hone
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /hoʊn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊn/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)).
Noun edit
hone (plural hones)
- 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.
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Verb edit
hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed)
- To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
- To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- To refine or master (a skill).
- 2023 August 23, David E Norris, “Joseph Locke: a railway injustice...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 56:
- He also honed the procedure known as cut and fill - whereby the spoil from railway cuttings was used to build up embankments.
- To make more acute, intense, or effective.
Derived terms edit
- hone in (on) (proscribed)
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Etymology 2 edit
Cognate with Icelandic hnúður. Distantly related to knot.
Noun edit
hone (plural hones)
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Etymology 3 edit
French hogner (“to grumble”), which could be a cross of honnir (“to disgrace, shame”) and grogner (“to grunt”).
Verb edit
hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed)
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To grumble.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
- Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
- 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
- He lies pitying himself, honing and moaning to himself
Etymology 4 edit
Interjection edit
hone
- Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 4, page 141
- Oh, hone! oh, hone! miserable wretch that I am! Do ye mak confession for me, Sir, and I'll say 't after you, as weel as I dow. Oh, hone! oh, hone!
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 4, page 141
Cimbrian edit
Alternative forms edit
- huunig (Sette Comuni)
Etymology edit
From Middle High German honec, honic, from Old High German honag, honeg, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą. Cognate with German Honig, English honey.
Noun edit
hone m
References edit
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
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Romanization edit
hone
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English hān, from Proto-West Germanic *hainu, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (“whetstone”). The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.
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Noun edit
hone
- hone (whetstone)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “hōne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
hone
- Alternative form of hon
Yola edit
Noun edit
hone
- Alternative form of hoane
- 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:
- F. brone, eelone, hone, lone, sthone, sthrone.
- E. brand, island, hand, land, stand, strand.
References edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 14