different between barnet vs whetstone

English

Etymology

Rhyming slang, from Barnet Fair, an annual horse and pleasure fair in Barnet, North London.

Noun

barnet (plural barnets)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) hair (on one's head)

Anagrams

• Bernat, banter

Danish

Noun

barnet n sg

1. definite singular of barn

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

barnet n

1. definite singular of barn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

barnet n

1. definite singular of barn

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??(r)n?t/

Noun

barnet

1. definite singular of barn

Anagrams

• brante, enbart

English

Etymology

From Middle English whestone, whetston, whetesston, from Old English hwetst?n, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjastain (“whetstone”). Equivalent to whet (“to sharpen”) +? stone.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?tst??n/

Noun

whetstone (plural whetstones)

1. 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.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 88-89

     It was as if a stone were ground to dust; as if white sparks flew from a livid whetstone, which was his spine; as if the switchback railway, having swooped to the depths, fell, fell, fell.

2. (computing) A benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer.
3. (figuratively) A stimulant.

Related terms

• stone
• whet

Translations

Verb

whetstone (third-person singular simple present whetstones, present participle whetstoning, simple past and past participle whetstoned)

1. (transitive) To sharpen with a whetstone.

See also

• grind, grindstone
• hone