whetstone

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see also: Whetstone

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /wɛtstəʊn/

Noun

whetstone (plural whetstones)

1. A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 88-89

     It was as if a stone were ground to dust; as if white sparks flew from a livid whetstone, which was his spine; as if the switchback railway, having swooped to the depths, fell, fell, fell.

2. (computing) A benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer.
3. (figurative) A stimulant.

Related terms

• stone
• whet

Translations

• French: pierre à aiguiser, aiguisoir
• German: Schleifstein, Wetzstein, Abziehstein
• Italian: cote
• Portuguese: mó
• Russian: осело́к
• Spanish: muela, piedra de afilar, piedra de amolar

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Whetstone

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /wɛtstəʊn/

Proper noun

1. An area in Barnet, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2693).
2. A large village/and/civil parish in Blaby (OS grid ref SP5597).
3. CDP in Cochise County, Arizona.
4. An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
5. Surname

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