Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /wɛtstəʊn/
whetstone (plural whetstones)
- 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.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 88-89
- (computing) A benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer.
- (figurative) A stimulant.
- French: pierre à aiguiser, aiguisoir
- German: Schleifstein, Wetzstein, Abziehstein
- Italian: cote
- Portuguese: mó
- Russian: осело́к
- Spanish: muela, piedra de afilar, piedra de amolar
Whetstone
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /wɛtstəʊn/
- An area in Barnet, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2693).
- A large village/and/civil parish in Blaby (OS grid ref SP5597).
- CDP in Cochise County, Arizona.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
- Surname
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