scythestone

English

Etymology

scythe +‎ stone

Noun

scythestone (plural scythestones)

1. A whetstone for sharpening scythes.
   • 1963, Crichton Porteous, Portrait of Peakland:

     Some of the stone used to be made into grindstones and scythestones, and aged carpenters and farmmen tell how "kindly" it was to their tools and scythe blades; it left the edges smooth as silk, which synthetic stone (carborundum) never quite does.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scythestone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)