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
No, yer honer, I war not afraid of that; but it might be as well there should be no scrimmage betwixt us, as in course there would not be, and we oncet man and wife.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
