Definition of "hone" in Anglais

noun

1. A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.

2. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

verb

1. (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

2. (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

3. (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.

4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.

noun

1. A kind of swelling in the cheek.

verb

1. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.

   • Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,

2. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.

interjection

1. Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief