hone
verb (used with object)
honer
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a word derived from
hone.
Example Sentences
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Which is funny because I'm a stand-up, but I'm a slow honer.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2023
Why shouldn’t the artist also be a honer of craft, a sorter of nuts and bolts, as attuned to the quotidian as to the imagined greater beyond?
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
For me, this would be the honer of a lifetime.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
It marked the ninth consecutive appearance that Odorizzi had allowed a honer, a career high and the second-longest active streak in the majors behind 11 by Jesse Chavez of the Los Angeles Angels.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2017
"And have the honer to be, "Your obedient and much obliged, and very thankful servant for what a' got, as well as for what a' expect, Sir Tomas, "Periwinkle Crackenfudge."
From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
