| 单词 | german hone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGerman hone German hone n. a type of whetstone used esp. to put an edge on razors; material for this (see quot. 1915). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone whetstonec725 hone-stone1393 filourc1400 hone1440 rub1502 rubber1553 knife-stone1571 stone1578 oilstone1585 block1592 oil whetstone1601 greenstone1668 scythe-stone1688 water stone1703 sharping-stone1714 Scotch stone1766 honer1780 Turkey hone1794 polishing-slate1801 burr1816 Turkey stone1816 German hone1817 Arkansas1869 rag1877 rock1889 slipstone1927 1817 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 2 Apr. The subscriber has in store, a small invoice of German hones, of fine quality, for penknives or razors. 1822 D. Varley Conversat. on Mineral. viii. 136 The specimens..are whet-slate, which is known in commerce by the name of Turkey hone, and German hone. 1852 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancement Sci. 1851 Notices & Abstr. 13 The difficulty was obviated by employing a bed of German hones, by which the silver is probably rather filed than ground. 1915 G. F. Charnock Mech. Technol. (1921) i. xviii. 204 German Hone consists of a thin ‘rubber’ of very soft yellow-green stone cemented upon a thin layer of somewhat harder stone of a dark blue colour. 1921 A. M. Sutton Boardwork (ed. 3) App. iv. 261 I would advocate the possession of two German hones,..one to be a fast-cutting stone for the rubbing down of badly-notched or exceptionally rough razors, the other of a medium grain for the ordinary razor that requires setting. < as lemmas |
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