They're not "wet stones" but rather "whetstones" as in "whet: to make keen or more acute;" whet my appetite "; to sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone" ❋ Unknown (2010)
They're not "wet stones" but rather "whetstones" as in "whet: to make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"; to sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone" ❋ Unknown (2010)
The third was stacked with ammunition, grenades, flash bombs, whetstones, reloading supplies, cleaning paraphernalia, and boxes of power bars, jars of peanut butter, cases of Gatorade, and several jugs of Mountain Dew. ❋ Diana Pharaoh Francis (2011)
I use natural whetstones exclusively to sharpen knives, then touch them up with a leather strop or a sharpening steel. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I hone it with the cheapo V sharpener that came with it every month or so, and every six months or so I caress it across my whetstones. ❋ Meathead Goldwyn (2010)
Even from the distance, she could distinguish the distinctive sounds coming from the group of special tents-hear it over the laughing and singing, the crackle of fires, the sizzle of meat in skillets, the scraping rasp of whetstones on metal, the ring of hammers on steel, and the rhythm of saws. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Holding two knives in his hand, he sat on his machine—it was one of the foot-pedaled whetstones—and began pedaling. ❋ Aravind Adiga (2008)
But the objects of her zealous contemplation naturally also served as whetstones to sharpen her critical faculties, and she would sometimes measure against one another, brutishly, not only literary giants but also, apparently, friends, elevating and lowering them in her estimation at one another's expense, and, like the Queen of Hearts, send heads rolling. ❋ Eisenberg, Deborah (2008)
Even if it's nothing more than he's got an axe to grind, you'd think he'd go looking for other whetstones. ❋ Unknown (2006)
If treacherous talk is constantly in your ears, and unwanted thoughts are constantly in your mind, you can turn these about and use them as whetstones to enhance your practice. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Scattered about were other household belongings, including an iron knife, whetstones, soapstone vessels, and a double-edged comb. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Now whetstones and pebbles make the water thinner by drawing to them all the mud and other grosser substances that be mixed with it, that so by taking the strength from it may the more easily be wrought upon by the cold. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The mowers from all sides, brought closer together in the short row, kept urging one another on to the sound of jingling dipper and clanging scythes, and the hiss of the whetstones sharpening them, and good-humored shouts. ❋ Unknown (2003)
As, for example, we do sometimes see cutlers with hammers maul their finest whetstones, therewith to sharpen their iron tools the better. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Nor did the whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets, for their lances and other weapons; and with which whetstones, at dinner, they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did not at all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Has any one seen whetstone? I heard he was in the [pottery] [room] [friday night]. ❋ C-red (2004)
[Jessie] & My [Whetstone] ❋ Rego (2004)
Why would you [DM] her she’s [a munter].
She’s a Whetstone mate, just practicing [my game] for a 10 ❋ JiggabooMoo (2023)
