Complete Definition of "whetstone"

English

Noun
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whetstone

  1. a hard fine-grained stone for sharpening edged tools
  2. a benchmark for evaluating the power of a computer
Quotations
1922, w:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf, w:Jacob's Room|Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 88-89

Translations
(grindstone)
Croatian: t-|hr|brus|m
Albanian: t-|sq|grihë|f|xs=Albanian
German: t-|de|Schleifstein|m
Hungarian: köszörűk�
Romanian: t-|ro|gresie|f

Proper noun
Whetstone

  1. A location in Barnet, London, England

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