Definition of "hone" []

• A fine-grained whetstone for giving a keen edge to a cutting tool. (noun)
• A tool with a rotating abrasive tip for enlarging holes to precise dimensions. (noun)
• To sharpen on a fine-grained whetstone. (verb-transitive)
• To perfect or make more intense or effective: a speaker who honed her delivery by long practice. (verb-transitive)
• Hone in To move or advance toward a target or goal: The missiles honed in on the military installation. (phrasal-verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Mays, I use the word hone, Mays practiced being Mays."
• "(In the past, he's also offered fish such as sayori, needlefish, and hamo, daggertooth conger pike, an eel-like summer-season thing so bony that no one could figure out how to eat it until the people of Kyoto devised a special technique called hone-giri, to which Takayama-san has added variations of his own.)"
• "Sunnen has launched the HTA actuator hone, which is said to be ideal for cylinder surfacing and engineered for production of gas-meter tubes as well as light-duty metal removal applications."