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hone

See also: Hone, honě, Hōne, and høne

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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)

  1. 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.
  2. 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)

  1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  2. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  3. 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.
  4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
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Etymology 2 edit

Cognate with Icelandic hnúður. Distantly related to knot.

Noun edit

hone (plural hones)

  1. A kind of swelling in the cheek.
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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)

  1. (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.
  2. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.

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Interjection edit

hone

  1. 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!

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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.

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hone m

  1. (Luserna) honey
    süaz azpi dar hone ― as sweet as honey

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hone

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ほね

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

  1. hone (whetstone)
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  • English: hone

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Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

hone

  1. Alternative form of hon

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hone

  1. Alternative form of hoane
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:
      F. brone, eelone, hone, lone, sthone, sthrone.
      E. brand, island, hand, land, stand, strand.

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  • 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
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