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What are whetstones?

What are whetstones? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of whetstone
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The work is done purely by hand, and through a series of 10 whetstones, the blade is filed down, sharpened, and finished with an elaborate wavy pattern.
Unlike oil or water whetstones, a diamond whetstone does not need to be lubricated.
Several pieces of the fossil wood were selected by the men to serve as whetstones.
Whetstones were traded and used for sharpening weapons, tools and knives.
Novaculite stones, also known as Arkansas whetstones, are the slabs of natural rock most of us grew up with.
In 1964, or about a hundred knives after making his first one, he switched his focus to selling Arkansas whetstones and a year later began selling knives.

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