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Hone vs Wone - What's the difference?

hone | wone |

As nouns the difference between hone and wone

is that hone is a sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool or hone can be a kind of swelling in the cheek while wone is (obsolete|or|archaic|poetic) a dwelling or wone can be (obsolete|poetic) a house, home, habitation or wone can be custom, habit, practice.

As verbs the difference between hone and wone

is that hone is to sharpen with a hone while wone is (obsolete|or|archaic|dialectal) to live, reside, stay.

hone

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
  • A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
  • Derived terms
    * hone slate * hone stone

    Verb

  • To sharpen with a hone .
  • To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  • To refine or master (a skill).
  • To make more acute, intense, or effective.
  • To pine; to lament; to long.
  • (Lamb)

    See also

    * grit * sandpaper * steel * strop * swarf

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic word for "a knob".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of swelling in the cheek.
  • Derived terms
    * honewort ----

    wone

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).

    Alternative forms

    * won, wonne

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, or, archaic, poetic) A dwelling.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), '', Volume 2, vii:20 (''see also xii:11)
  • What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold
    So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye?
    Or where hast thou thy wonne , that so much gold
    Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery?
  • * 1748 , , I:XXXVII
  • On the cool height awhile out Palmers ?tay,
    And ?pite even of them?elves their Sen?es chear;
    Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ?teer.

    Verb

    (won)
  • (obsolete, or, archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
  • * 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17
  • Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned.
  • * 1596 , '', Volume 2, iii:18 (''see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)
  • For now the best and noblest knight alive
    Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie Lond;
    He hath a sword, that flames like burning brond.

    Etymology 2

    Southern variant of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • custom, habit, practice
  • use, usage
  • Synonyms
    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) ----