How To Use Whetstone In A Sentence
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On my enrolment I was issued with chef's overalls, two textbooks (in Chinese) and a personal cleaver, which I was expected to keep razor sharp by frequent visits to the enormous whetstone in the yard.
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Take one drachm of ebeny and nine oboli of burnt copper, rub them upon a whetstone, add three oboli of saffron; triturate all these things reduced to a fine powder, pour in an Attic hemina of sweet wine, and then place in the sun and cover up; when sufficiently digested, use it.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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Knives of all shapes and sizes hung on racks and lay on tables, whetstones handy.
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I had read enough Indian book reviews to know that reviewers are ustads with blades sharpened on a cruelly efficient whetstone.
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The work is done purely by hand, and through a series of 10 whetstones, (large lumps of grindstone) the blade is filed down, sharpened, and finished with an elaborate wavy pattern.
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She was ably supported by Charlotte Dixon, Amie Whetstone, Jennifer Griffiths and Rachel Hsu.
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Sharpen pruner blades by swiping them over the whetstone in a curved motion, trying to maintain their original bevel.
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Unlike other near contemporaries such as Thomas Dekker, Whetstone's anatomization of urban failings does not slip into cynicism, nor does he take a vicarious enjoyment in the vices he describes.
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Take one drachm of ebeny and nine oboli of burnt copper, rub them upon a whetstone, add three oboli of saffron; triturate all these things reduced to a fine powder, pour in an Attic hemina of sweet wine, and then place in the sun and cover up; when sufficiently digested, use it.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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That was of plain black leather, but it included a pocket that had once held some small tool and recalled the whetstone pocket on the manskin sheath of _Terminus Est_.
The Urth of the New Sun
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In 1964, or about a hundred knives after making his first one, he switched his focus to selling Arkansas whetstones and a year later began selling knives.
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This can be done by rubbing away surplus metal with a grindstone, whetstone, oilstone, steel, ceramic rod, leather strop or the palm of your hand.
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Eh, I just use the minosharp for my Global knives since no one will sharpen them and I do not trust my hand at a whetstone.
Learn To Sharpen Good Knives With Water Stones | Lifehacker Australia
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The whetstone would have been a important possession for the woodworker as, without it, he could not have sharpened any of his tools.
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While he shortened the distance between them, Dimitri realized Reana had been quietly sitting and sharpening her sword with a whetstone.
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Shaftesbury's test (which is a part of the rake's creed, and what I may call the whetstone of infidelity,) endeavoured to turn the sacred subject into ridicule.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
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When done right, comics are a cognitive whetstone, providing two or three or more different but entangled streams of information in a single panel.
I went home with a waitress the way i always do
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Each morning José Antonio has sharpened his knife against the little whetstone he carries in his pocket.
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_whetstones_ are produced largely from a rock called "novaculite" in
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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Other men still worked at the whetstone, or sat polishing their blades.
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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.
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I'm very much the beneficiary of his deeply insightful, eloquently argued ideas; the privilege of sharpening my ideas on the whetstone of his intellect is a rare one, and I'm delighted to share that opportunity with Boing Boing's readers ...
Boing Boing
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Archive 2008-02-01
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That elbow must have been honed on a whetstone of pure spite because it didn't stop until it got to his spine.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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Marching (100x15)
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Unlike oil or water whetstones, a diamond whetstone does not need to be lubricated.
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She sharpened the meat carving knife on a whetstone.
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The teeth of these people also, whatever they may suffer in their colour by chewing betel, are an object of great attention: The ends of them, both in the upper and under jaw, are rubbed with a kind of whetstone, by a very troublesome and painful operation, till they are perfectly even and flat, so that they cannot lose less than half a line in their length.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
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They include a whetstone from Norway, a bronze ringpin from Ireland, his sword with beautifully decorated hilt, a spear and a shield which survive only as metal fittings, and pottery.
Viking chieftain's burial ship excavated in Scotland after 1,000 years
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He used a makeshift whetstone to sharpen both blades again.
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She had turned away from her mother to lash the butcher knife over the whetstone, though it had its edge, and she had said, `I am nice.
DANSVILLE
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Sharpening a European scythe is a combination of hammering (called peening) and honing with a whetstone.
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Larger whetstones for sharpening iron tools were an important part of everyday equipment and were widely traded, especially since varying degrees of coarseness were required to produce a finely honed edge.
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Many cutting tools were sharpened with strickles or whetstones.
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This can be done by rubbing away surplus metal with a grindstone, whetstone, oilstone, steel, ceramic rod, leather strop or the palm of your hand.
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They're not "wet stones" but rather "whetstones" as in "whet: to make keen or more acute;" whet my appetite "; to sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone
Learn To Sharpen Good Knives With Water Stones | Lifehacker Australia
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At the time of her death Wetzsteon pronounced“whetstone” was the poetry editor of The New Republic and a faculty member at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.
The Life and Death and Art of Rachel Wetzsteon
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Lord Shaftesbury’s test (which is a part of the rake’s creed, and what I may call the whetstone of infidelity,) endeavoured to turn the sacred subject into ridicule.
Clarissa Harlowe
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He had a whetstone and cloth in hand with a sword laid across his lap.
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This can be done by rubbing away surplus metal with a grindstone, whetstone, oilstone, steel, ceramic rod, leather strop or the palm of your hand.
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Then too, even as regards the story, Shakespeare varies from Whetstone much more materially than the latter does from Cinthio: representing the illicit meeting of Claudio and Juliet as taking place under the shield of a solemn betrothment; which very much lessens their fault, as marriage bonds were already upon them; and proportionably heightens Angelo's wickedness, as it brings on him the guilt of making the law responsible for his own arbitrary rigour.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. George R.R. Martin
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He nodded and continued sharpening swords with whetstones.
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The word cos is Latin for whetstone, a stone for sharpening razors and tools.
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Yesterday I used my magical powers (as well as a thirty-year old pair of shears in need of a little bit of attention with a whetstone) to trim the hedge that runs along the side and in front of the house.
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When we were back in our room again, with the table against the door, I took out the whetstone and sharpened the man-side of the blade, honing its edge until the endmost third, the part I would use, would divide a thread tossed into the air.
The Shadow of the Torturer
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Marching (100x15)
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He heard the whine of axe-blade on whetstone and the first shiver of fear went through him.
The Pig’s End « A Fly in Amber
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Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief convert to anger blunt not the heart, enrage it.
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He turned the chair to the desk behind him, picked up a whetstone and a knife, and started to sharpen it.
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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.
