Sand and gravel are stone broken into bits. A whetstone, flint, marble etcetera are ordinary stones.
Source: tatoeba (7305914)
Whetstone
//ˈʍɛtˌstoʊn//
Synonyms for "whetstone" (8 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (2)
Related words (4)
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8 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
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14 entriesTranslations
122 translations across 74 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- gashtë noun (stone used to hone tools)
- grihë noun (stone used to hone tools)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- θηγάνη noun (stone used to hone tools)
- ἀκόνη noun (stone used to hone tools)
Arabic
3 entries- مِجْلَخَة noun (stone used to hone tools)
- مِسَنّ noun (stone used to hone tools)
- مِشْحَذ noun (stone used to hone tools)
Armenian
1 entries- հեսան noun (stone used to hone tools)
Balkan-Romani
3 entries- asan noun (stone used to hone tools)
- beledǐn noun (stone used to hone tools)
- tros noun (stone used to hone tools)
Belarusian
1 entries- асялок noun (stone used to hone tools)
Bulgarian
2 entries- брус noun (stone used to hone tools)
- точило noun (stone used to hone tools)
Catalan
2 entries- pedra d'esmolar noun (stone used to hone tools)
- pedra esmoladora noun (stone used to hone tools)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ھەسان noun (stone used to hone tools)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 磨刀石 noun (stone used to hone tools)
- 磨石 noun (stone used to hone tools)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- bilev noun (stone used to hone tools)
Czech
1 entries- brousek noun (stone used to hone tools)
Danish
1 entries- slibesten noun (stone used to hone tools)
Dutch
1 entries- slijpsteen noun (stone used to hone tools)
Esperanto
1 entries- akrigilo noun (stone used to hone tools)
Finnish
2 entries- hiomakivi noun (stone used to hone tools)
- kovasin noun (stone used to hone tools)
French
2 entries- aiguisoir noun (stone used to hone tools)
- pierre à aiguiser noun (stone used to hone tools)
Galician
2 entries- moa noun (stone used to hone tools)
- pedra de afiar noun (stone used to hone tools)
German
3 entries- Abziehstein noun (stone used to hone tools)
- Schleifstein noun (stone used to hone tools)
- Wetzstein noun (stone used to hone tools)
Greek
1 entries- ακόνι noun (stone used to hone tools)
Gurani
1 entries- ھەسان noun (stone used to hone tools)
Hebrew
2 entries- אבן השאה noun (stone used to hone tools)
- אבן משחזת noun (stone used to hone tools)
Hungarian
3 entries- fenőkő noun (stone used to hone tools)
- kaszakő noun (stone used to hone tools)
- köszörűkő noun (stone used to hone tools)
Ido
1 entries- akutigilo noun (stone used to hone tools)
Indonesian
2 entries- batu asah noun (stone used to hone tools)
- batu las noun (stone used to hone tools)
Ingrian
1 entries- luiska noun (stone used to hone tools)
Italian
1 entries- cote noun (stone used to hone tools)
Japanese
2 entries- 砥石 noun (stone used to hone tools)
- 磨石 noun (stone used to hone tools)
Kalmyk
1 entries- бүлү noun (stone used to hone tools)
Khmer
1 entries- ថ្មសំលៀងកាំបិត noun (stone used to hone tools)
Kikuyu
1 entries- inooro noun (stone used to hone tools)
Korean
1 entries- 숫돌 noun (stone used to hone tools)
Ladin
1 entries- chëut noun (stone used to hone tools)
Latgalian
1 entries- streičs noun (stone used to hone tools)
Latin
1 entries- cōs noun (stone used to hone tools)
Latvian
2 entries- galoda noun (stone used to hone tools)
- tecīla noun (stone used to hone tools)
Lithuanian
3 entries- galąstuvas noun (stone used to hone tools)
- pustyklė noun (stone used to hone tools)
- tekėlas noun (stone used to hone tools)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- brus noun (stone used to hone tools)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Schläifsteen noun (stone used to hone tools)
Macedonian
1 entries- точило noun (stone used to hone tools)
Malay
1 entries- batu pengasah noun (stone used to hone tools)
Megleno-Romanian
1 entries- cuti noun (stone used to hone tools)
Middle English
1 entries- wheston noun (stone used to hone tools)
Mongolian
2 entries- билүү noun (stone used to hone tools)
- хайлга noun (stone used to hone tools)
Māori
2 entries- hōanga noun (stone used to hone tools)
- tūāhōanga noun (stone used to hone tools)
Navajo
1 entries- tsé béésh bee daakʼaashígíí noun (stone used to hone tools)
Norman
1 entries- affileuse noun (stone used to hone tools)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- hesan noun (stone used to hone tools)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bryne noun (stone used to hone tools)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bryne noun (stone used to hone tools)
Old English
1 entries- hwetstān noun (stone used to hone tools)
Old Norse
1 entries- hein noun (stone used to hone tools)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بلگو noun (stone used to hone tools)
Pazeh
1 entries- zazupayen noun (stone used to hone tools)
Persian
3 entries- افسان noun (stone used to hone tools)
- سان noun (stone used to hone tools)
- فسان noun (stone used to hone tools)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Schliepsteen (nds) noun (stone used to hone tools)
- Watsteen noun (stone used to hone tools)
Polabian
1 entries- våslă noun (stone used to hone tools)
Polish
1 entries- osełka noun (stone used to hone tools)
Portuguese
1 entries- mó noun (stone used to hone tools)
Romanian
2 entries- cute noun (stone used to hone tools)
- gresie noun (stone used to hone tools)
Russian
4 entries- брус noun (stone used to hone tools)
- осело́к noun (stone used to hone tools)
- точи́ло noun (stone used to hone tools)
- точи́льный ка́мень noun (stone used to hone tools)
Scots
1 entries- whatstane noun (stone used to hone tools)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- clach-ghleusaidh noun (stone used to hone tools)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- brus noun (stone used to hone tools)
- брус noun (stone used to hone tools)
Southern Kurdish
1 entries- ھەسان noun (stone used to hone tools)
Spanish
4 entries- afiladera noun (stone used to hone tools)
- afilador noun (stone used to hone tools)
- afiladora noun (stone used to hone tools)
- aguzadera noun (stone used to hone tools)
Swahili
1 entries- suguo noun (stone used to hone tools)
Swedish
4 entries- bryne noun (stone used to hone tools)
- brynsten noun (stone used to hone tools)
- hen noun (stone used to hone tools)
- slipsten noun (stone used to hone tools)
Tagalog
3 entries- bugaan noun (stone used to hone tools)
- hasaan noun (stone used to hone tools)
- kamanga noun (stone used to hone tools)
Thai
1 entries- หินลับมีด noun (stone used to hone tools)
Turkish
1 entries- bileği taşı noun (stone used to hone tools)
Ukrainian
2 entries- брус noun (stone used to hone tools)
- осла́ noun (stone used to hone tools)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đá mài noun (stone used to hone tools)
Welsh
1 entries- agalen noun (stone used to hone tools)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Tom slid the knife across the whetstone until it was razor-sharp.
Source: tatoeba (13613927)
The blacksmith kept a whetstone beside the forge.
Source: tatoeba (13613929)
[…]for alwaies the dulneſſe of the foole, is the whetstone of the wits.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 9 available sentences.
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