Usually means: Tools for sharpening cutting edges.
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  1. whetstones: Merriam-Webster
  2. whetstones: Collins English Dictionary
  3. whetstones: Vocabulary.com
  4. Whetstone's, whetstones: Wordnik
  5. whetstones: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. whetstones: Wiktionary
  7. whetstones: Dictionary.com
  8. Whetstones (stone circle), Whetstones: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Whetstones: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Whetstones: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whetstone)

noun:  A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.
noun:  (figurative) A stimulant.
verb:  (transitive) To sharpen with a whetstone.
noun:  An area in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2693).
noun:  A large village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5597).
noun:  A census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (computing) A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
noun:  (computing) A single instruction of the Whetstone benchmark, often expressed as a value per second.
noun:  (computing) Alternative letter-case form of Whetstone (“benchmark”) [An area in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2693).]
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