whetstone
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Martin’s “A Game of Thrones” series, said, “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
Whatever knife you choose, buy a honing rod, sharpening steel or whetstone.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Over the past two million years huge sheets of ice ground the landscape of central Illinois to a whetstone flatness.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 2023
Activities that demand focus and industry are the whetstone to keeping cognition sharp, Merrill says.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022
The father sharpened the butcher knife with the whetstone he used to whet his scythe and his goose-necked brier hook in the summer when he cut brambles and young sumac in the fencerows.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing whetstone
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 4
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A Game of Thrones
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