Synonyms for honed
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : hohn |
| Phonetic Transcription : hoÊŠn |
Définition of honed
Origin :- "whetstone," Old English han "stone, rock, (boundary) stone," in Middle English "whetstone" (early 14c.), from Proto-Germanic *haino (cf. Old Norse hein "hone"). The verb is 1788, from the noun. Related: Honed; honing.
- verb sharpen
- It lay there on the tray, its honed edge glittering in the light of the sun.
- Extract from : « Life Sentence » by James McConnell
- If you knew how I've honed to set the table with my weddin' dishes.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1919 » by Various
- My hunting knife, honed as fine as the edge of a microtome blade.
- Extract from : « Backlash » by Winston Marks
- Joe found the ax so sharp that he must have honed it after felling the last tree.
- Extract from : « The Lost Wagon » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
- Honed Sr,—I recd yrs of ye 25th in which I find with ye utmost concern ye dissatisfaction you express at my expences.
- Extract from : « Lord Chatham » by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
- Honed Madm,—Yr letters must always give me so much pleasure, yt I beg no consideration may induce you to deprive me of it.
- Extract from : « Lord Chatham » by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
- The blade is of unusual shape and may have been honed down to its present size.
- Extract from : « Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology » by Ivor Noel Hume
- These should be fined or honed to a perfect point, and the abrupt part of the barb filed down one-half.
- Extract from : « Woodcraft and Camping » by George Washington Sears (Nessmuk)
- Hunger and sleepless nights had knobbed his cheekbones and honed his chin to a sharp point.
- Extract from : « They Twinkled Like Jewels » by Philip Jos Farmer
- He had never seen her look more beautiful, but it was the icy beauty of a honed dagger.
- Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
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