- to make more acute or effective; improve; perfect: to hone one's skills.
- to sharpen on a whetstone with a fine, compact texture: to hone a carving knife.
- to enlarge or finish (a hole) using a precision tool with a mechanically rotated abrasive tip.
- a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- a precision tool with a mechanically rotated abrasive tip, for enlarging holes to precise dimensions.
- to yearn; long: to hone for the farm life; to hone after peach pie.
- to moan and groan.
- a fine whetstone, esp for sharpening razors
- a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc
- to sharpen or polish with or as if with a hone
- to yearn or pine
- to moan or grieve
