Crossword clues for honing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hone \Hone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Honed (h[=o]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Honing.]
To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
to render more precise or more effective; as, to hone one's skills.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of hone English)
Wikipedia
Honing may refer to:
- Honing (metalworking), machining a surface by scrubbing an abrasive stone against it
- Sharpening edged tools with a manual hone
- Honing, Norfolk, English village
Honing is an abrasive machining process that produces a precision surface on a metal workpiece by scrubbing an abrasive stone against it along a controlled path. Honing is primarily used to improve the geometric form of a surface, but may also improve the surface texture.
Typical applications are the finishing of cylinders for internal combustion engines, air bearing spindles and gears. There are many types of hones but all consist of one or more abrasive stones that are held under pressure against the surface they are working on.
In terms of sharpening knives, a honing steel does not actually hone knives, but simply realigns the metal along the edge.
Other similar processes are lapping and superfinishing.
Usage examples of "honing".
The high command is far too busy scrambling to make coin on deals best left to the Bashkir than in honing the edge of death.
Expertly, I zigzagged between pallettes, honing in on exactly what I wanted.
Why else would the Soviets go to so much trouble, unless the soldiers, probably their top commandoes, were honing their deadly skills on the lives of the Packrats?
The gladiators live in relative luxury, honing their fighting skills and dreaming of fame and glory.
The trainer directs the girl in the cage, or in the exercises, tending, observing, and prescribing, honing her with expertness into a delicious, responsive slave animal, the Gorean girl, collared, in bondage, trained to drive a man mad with desire, and then serve that desire, vulnerably, frequently and absolutely.
As he glided along the garden paths, his face settled into its familiar cold mask, the happiness he'd felt a few minutes before honing the blade of his temper so sharp he could have made the air bleed.
Why couldnt he have put on weight, developed a beer belly and worn his pants slung low under it, rather than honing down to such lean muscularity, even more finely tuned than during his football days?
He kept his belt knife honed sharp and hoped the steel blade would last until he could replace it as the daily honings were visibly narrowing the good blade.
However, Juliet decided she would combine both roles, spending half the year with Angeline Fowl, and the other half honing her martial arts skills in Madame Ko's camp.
Danny zoomed out, in, out, in, until he was pressed into the window glass with the pins and needles localized between his legs, his eyes honing for mid-shots, closeups, faces.
Honing stones were dragged in one last scrape along already sharp swords.
What their ignorance left out of account -- and mine too, which saw no reply to their objection -- was a technical breakthrough he'd recently achieved and was about to put to use: a precision honing device he called the Infinite Divisor.
I was not Tolar, yet something of him would always remain within me, honing what I was now into a better self, even as a careful warrior hones his blades.
It's not bad enough that we have blades skulking about here day and night, when the princesses ought to be thinking about improving their custard recipes and honing their white sauces.