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hone1   [hohn]  Show IPA noun, verb, honed, hon·ing.
noun
1.
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
2.
a precision tool with a mechanically rotated abrasive tip, for enlarging holes to precise dimensions.
verb (used with object)
3.
to sharpen on a hone: to hone a carving knife.
4.
to enlarge or finish (a hole) with a hone.
5.
to make more acute or effective; improve; perfect: to hone one's skills.
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Origin:
before 950; Middle English  (noun); Old English hān  stone, rock; cognate with Old Norse hein  hone; akin to cone

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hone2   [hohn]  Show IPA
verb (used without object), honed, hon·ing.
1.
South Midland and Southern U.S. to yearn; long: to hone for the farm life; to hone after peach pie.
2.
Archaic. to moan and groan.
Origin:
1590–1600;  < Anglo-French *honer; Old French hogner  to grumble, growl < Germanic;  compare Old Saxon hōnian  to abuse, revile

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hone 1  (həʊn)

— n
1. a fine whetstone, esp for sharpening razors
2. a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc

— vb
3. ( tr ) to sharpen or polish with or as if with a hone

usage Hone  is sometimes wrongly used where home  is meant: this device makes it easier to home in on  (not hone in on ) the target


hone 2  (həʊn)

— vb  (often foll by for or  after )
1. to yearn or pine
2. to moan or grieve

[C17: from Old French hogner  to growl, probably of Germanic origin; compare Old High German hōnen  to revile]

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hone
O.E. han "stone, rock," in M.E. "whetstone" (early 14c.), from P.Gmc. *khaino (cf. O.N. hein "hone"). The verb is 1788, from the noun.
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