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A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.

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  1. n. A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.
  2. n. a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives
  3. A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, orsharpening, edge tools.The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits. Shak.Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor.South.
  4. n:100 n. a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives