whetstonen.

Brit.

/ˈwɛtstəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)wɛtˌstoʊn/

Forms: see whet v. and stone n.; also Middle English whestoun, Middle English wheston, weston(e, Middle English–1500s whestone, Middle English whestoon, watstone, quetstone, Middle English–1500s whatstane; β. 1500s Scottish quhitstane, 1600s whitston, 1700s whitstone.

Etymology: Old English hwetstán (huete- , huetistán ) = (Middle) Dutch wetsteen , Middle Low German wettestên (Low German wettstein ), Old High German wez(z)istein (Middle High German wetz(e)stein , German wetzstein ): < whet v. + stone n.

a. A shaped stone used for giving a smooth edge to cutting tools when they have been ground.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone

whetstonec725

hone-stone1393

filourc1400

hone1440

rub1502

rubber1553

knife-stone1571

stone1578

oilstone1585

block1592

oil whetstone1601

greenstone1668

scythe-stone1688

water stone1703

sharping-stone1714

Scotch stone1766

honer1780

Turkey hone1794

polishing-slate1801

burr1816

Turkey stone1816

German hone1817

Arkansas1869

rag1877

rock1889

slipstone1927

c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 746 Cox, huetestan.

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iv. xiii. §5 Hit biþ eac geornlic þæt mon heardlice gnide þone hnescestan mealmstan æfter þæm þæt he þence þone soelestan hwetstan on to geræceanne.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 631 A wheston [v.r. weston] is no keruyng Instrument, And yet it maketh sharpe keruyng tolys.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. xxiii. (Tollem. MS.) Ben diuerse maner of whetstones, and some neden water and some neden oyle for-to whette.

1472 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 247 j whatstane.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 11 Get grindstone & whetstone to sharpen thy toole.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxcii. 150 And as it is saide a good Cooke can make you good meate of a whetstone.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 916/1 I am..taken suddenlie with a thing about my stomach, that lieth there along as cold as a whetstone.

1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. B4^v Some pittifull fellowes (that haue..wittes colde as Whetstones, and more blunt).

1679 R. South Serm. Several Occasions 287 Diligence is to the Vnderstanding as the Whetstone to the Razor.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 239 Some argillites and sandstones; these last form the coarser whet-stones.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. (1862) xi. §2. 775 The..skins..are carefully smoothed with a whetstone upon a beam.

1896 J. Davidson Fleet St. Eclogues 2nd Ser. 14 Still and anon The whetstone shrieked against the curving blade.

β. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xi. 62 Sum..on quhitstanis thair axis scharpis at hame.1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xv. 84 Þow suld cut þat quhitstane in þi hand with ane rasoure.

b. Any hard fine-grained rock, as novaculite, of which whetstones are made; hone-stone.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > for whetstones

whetstone1578

hone1688

Mudgee1909

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > hard stone > whetstone

whetstone1578

wolf-stone1640

hone1688

Water of Ayr stone1793

novaculite1794

Turkey hone1794

Turkey stone1816

whet-slate1839

1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery H iij b Like as what stone,..hardiest is with toole to bee graue, Doth sooner breake in peeces, then it bendeth.

1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 111 This shire is well stored with Milstones, Crystal, Alabaster and Whetstone.

1788 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) (at cited word) Bed of hones, or hone-pavement, one of the tools used in the operation of grinding specula for telescopes; formed of pieces of the finest blue hone or whetstone.

1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Edinburgh In the parish of Ratho is found a species of whetstone or hone, of the finest substance.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Whetstone, or Whetstone-sill, strata of argillaceous and siliceous hazle-stone in the carboniferous limestone formation.

c. transferred. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > false conception or pregnancy

molaa1398

mole?c1425

maw mother?c1475

mooncalf1565

whetstone1580

cushion1600

false conception1601

pseudocyesis1859

pseudopregnancy1860

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance

ampereOE

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nodusa1400

oedemaa1400

wax-kernel14..

knobc1405

nodule?a1425

more?c1425

bunnyc1440

papa1450

knurc1460

waxing kernel?c1460

lump?a1500

waxen-kernel1500

bump1533

puff1538

tumour?1541

swelling1542

elevation1543

enlarging1562

knub1563

pimple1582

ganglion1583

button1584

phyma1585

emphysema?1587

flesh-pimple1587

oedem?a1591

burgeon1597

wartle1598

hurtle1599

pough1601

wart1603

extumescence1611

hulch1611

peppernel1613

affusion1615

extumescency1684

jog1715

knibloch1780

tumefaction1802

hunch1803

income1808

intumescence1822

gibber1853

tumescence1859

whetstone1886

tumidity1897

Osler's node1920

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > disorders of udder

udder-clap1825

udder-ill1847

gargil1886

whetstone1887

quarter evil1897

summer mastitis1929

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > udder > parts of

spean1573

whetstone1887

1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 93^v A Mole in a womans body, otherwise called a whetston, or a moone Calfe [i.e. a false conception].

1683 R. Thoresby Diary (1830) I. 155 This place [Grantham] is..chiefly noted of travellers, for a peculiar sort of thin cake, called Grantham Whetstones.

1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Whetstun,..any hard swelling.

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Whetstone, a lump in the udder of a cow, consequent upon the ducts having been overcharged.

2. Allusive and figurative uses.

a. gen. with reference to the use of a whetstone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > means or instrument of preparation

whetstone1387

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 341 He..whette þe rude soules to goode wiþ þe whestoun of vertues.

1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) vi. iii. f. 159 Except the sinfull harte of man..be often scoured with the whetstone of aduersitie.

1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde To Rdr. sig. C Shooting out their venemous shafts, with mischeeuous heads, sharpened vpon Martins most malicious whetstone.

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. F3^v The very name of Londoners being worse then ten whetstones to sharpen the sword of Iustice against them.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 165 Rhetoricall Topicks are such Whetstones, that even the Sword of the Spirit (that two-edged Sword) hath often used.

1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife iv. i. 67 He serves for nothing but a mere Whetstone of your Ill-humour.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xxxviii. 22 Boileau, whose rash envy could allow No strain which shamed his country's creaking lyre, That whetstone of the teeth—monotony in wire.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. iii. 61 The face of the Sovereign was a whetstone to the soldier's sword.

b. in allusion to the former custom of hanging a whetstone round the neck of a liar; esp. in to lie for the whetstone, to be a great liar.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > custom of hanging whetstone round neck

whetstone1418

society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (intransitive)] > be punished by whetstone

to lie for the whetstone1418

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lie, tell lies [verb (intransitive)] > extremely, blatantly

to lie for the whetstone1418

to lie in one's throat1566

to flap in the mouth (with a lie)1578

to flap the lie in one's teeth1650

1364 Liber Albus (Rolls) iv. 601 Juggement de Pillorie par iii heures, ove un ague pier entour soun col, pur mensonges controeves.]

1418 Cal. Let.-Bks. Lond., Let.-Bk. I (1909) 197 He, as a fals lyere..shal stonde..upon þe pillorye..wiþ a Westone aboute his necke.

1472 Cov. Leet Bk. 372 Nor that they frohensfurth enbrase eny jure, vppon the peyn to lese at þe first defalt, C s., and at þe ij de defalt to haue the wheston aboute their nekkes.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 254 A, good syr, lett hym oone. He lyes for the quetstone—I gyf hym the pryce!

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 196/1 Peraduenture he that was the inuentor fyrst of thys tale of the stone, was disposed to lie for the whetstone: Wherfore in my mynde he is worthy to haue it.

1577 W. Fulke Confut. Doctr. Purgatory 437 You haue sayd enough, M. Allen, to winne the whetstone, if it were as bigge as any mountaine in the worlde.

1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 596 Of all the lowde lyes that euer I heard, this may goe for the whetstone.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes 267 Ware stumbling of whetstones in the darke there, my maisters.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 133 He might..for his labour challenge to be preferred to the Clarkship of the whetstone.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 135 Our worshipfull Clarkes of the whetstone, Doctour Clare [etc.]..diuers late Historiologers, and..this new Tale-founder himselfe.

1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will in Wks. (Grosart) VI. 98 O intolerable lying villayne, that was never begotten without the consent of a whetstone!

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 639 They wil presently giue both these Authors and me the Whet-stone for rare vntruths.

1658 H. Edmundson Comes Facundus in Via: Fellow-traveller 285 A great Person..had in a frolick set on some wanton wits to lye for the Whetstone.

1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body iii. iv. 39 If you be not as errant a Cuckold, as e're drove Bargain upon the Exchange,..I am the Son of a Whetstone.

1792 J. Budworth Fortnight's Ramble Lakes 36 (note) It is a custom in the North, when a man tells the greatest lye in company, to reward him with a whetstone, which is called ‘Lying for a whetstone’.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.)

β. 1782 Exmoor Courtship (ed. 9) 20 What a gurt Lee es thate!..thek Man shou'd a' had the Whitstone.

c. Something that sharpens the wits, desires, etc., or incites to action.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates

prickleOE

pritchOE

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brodc1375

bellowsc1386

pricka1387

motivec1390

prompting1402

preparativec1450

stirmentc1460

incentive?a1475

fomenta1500

farda1522

instigation1526

pointing1533

swinge1548

spur1551

whetstone1551

goad1567

promptitude1578

alarm1587

inducement1593

solicitor1594

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instance1597

excitement1604

moving spirit1604

heart-blood1606

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rouser1611

stimulator1614

motioner1616

incensivea1618

incitative1620

incitation1622

whettera1625

impulsivea1628

excitation1628

incendiary1628

dispositive1629

fomentationa1631

switch1630

stirrer1632

irritament1634

provocative1638

impetus1641

driving force1642

driving power1642

engagement1642

firer1653

propellant1654

fomentary1657

impulse1660

urgency1664

impeller1686

fillip1699

shove1724

incitive1736

stimulative1747

bonus1787

stimulus1791

impellent1793

stimulant1794

propulsion1800

instigant1833

propulsive1834

motive power1836

evoker1845

motivity1857

afflatus1865

flip1881

urge1882

agent provocateur1888

will to power1896

a shot in the arm1922

motivator1929

driver1971

co-driver1993

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > [noun] > sharpener

whetstone1551

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason Ep. sig. Aiiij^v I professe to be but..a spurre or a whet stone, to sharpe the pennes of some other.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. Ep. to King By the readyng of wyttie artes (which be as the whette stones of witte).

1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 8^v The court Mamillia, is the whetston of lust, the baite of vanity, the call of Cupid.

1592 R. Greene Pandosto (new ed.) sig. B^v Preferment to a meane man, is a whetstone to courage.

1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgrimage B 3 Wits whetstone, want.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 37 For a whetstone, to pull on a cup of wine, we have dryed Neats tongues.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 358 The Wits..made him their Whetstone.

1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. ii. 31 Anger, which is said to be the whetstone of courage.

a1822 P. B. Shelley in Relics (1862) 38 Let them read Shakespeare's sonnets, taking thence A whetstone for their dull intelligence.

a1857 R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Remains (1858) I. 7 Their wit could content itself with no less royal a whet~stone than himself and his son Pius.

β. 1617 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 240 I am of opinion that Goresano, our late jurebasso, is a whitston to egg hym on against us.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

whetstone-mountain n.

ΚΠ

1851 B. Thorpe Northern Mythol. I. 71 The club was dashed in pieces, of which one portion fell on the earth, whence come all the whetstone mountains.

whetstone-shaped adj.

ΚΠ

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 680/1 Whetstone-shaped crystals.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 114 The mucus..contains whetstone-shaped bodies.

C2.

† whetstone-leasing n. Obsolete see leasing n.¹ cf. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > telling of falsehoods, lying

leasingc950

fablinga1300

lyinga1300

menteryc1450

blanching1581

forgery1582

whetstone-leasing1598

Creticism1614

mentition1656

falsehood1662

storytelling1681

mendaciloquencec1710

fibbing1749

economy of truth1796

fibbery1857

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 47 Whet-stone leasings of olde Maundeuile.

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单词	whetstone
释义	whetstonen. Brit. /ˈwɛtstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɛtˌstoʊn/ Forms: see whet v. and stone n.; also Middle English whestoun, Middle English wheston, weston(e, Middle English–1500s whestone, Middle English whestoon, watstone, quetstone, Middle English–1500s whatstane; β. 1500s Scottish quhitstane, 1600s whitston, 1700s whitstone. Etymology: Old English hwetstán (huete- , huetistán ) = (Middle) Dutch wetsteen , Middle Low German wettestên (Low German wettstein ), Old High German wez(z)istein (Middle High German wetz(e)stein , German wetzstein ): < whet v. + stone n. 1. a. A shaped stone used for giving a smooth edge to cutting tools when they have been ground. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone whetstonec725 hone-stone1393 filourc1400 hone1440 rub1502 rubber1553 knife-stone1571 stone1578 oilstone1585 block1592 oil whetstone1601 greenstone1668 scythe-stone1688 water stone1703 sharping-stone1714 Scotch stone1766 honer1780 Turkey hone1794 polishing-slate1801 burr1816 Turkey stone1816 German hone1817 Arkansas1869 rag1877 rock1889 slipstone1927 c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 746 Cox, huetestan. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iv. xiii. §5 Hit biþ eac geornlic þæt mon heardlice gnide þone hnescestan mealmstan æfter þæm þæt he þence þone soelestan hwetstan on to geræceanne. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 631 A wheston [v.r. weston] is no keruyng Instrument, And yet it maketh sharpe keruyng tolys. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. xxiii. (Tollem. MS.) Ben diuerse maner of whetstones, and some neden water and some neden oyle for-to whette. 1472 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 247 j whatstane. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 11 Get grindstone & whetstone to sharpen thy toole. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxcii. 150 And as it is saide a good Cooke can make you good meate of a whetstone. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 916/1 I am..taken suddenlie with a thing about my stomach, that lieth there along as cold as a whetstone. 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. B4^v Some pittifull fellowes (that haue..wittes colde as Whetstones, and more blunt). 1679 R. South Serm. Several Occasions 287 Diligence is to the Vnderstanding as the Whetstone to the Razor. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 239 Some argillites and sandstones; these last form the coarser whet-stones. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. (1862) xi. §2. 775 The..skins..are carefully smoothed with a whetstone upon a beam. 1896 J. Davidson Fleet St. Eclogues 2nd Ser. 14 Still and anon The whetstone shrieked against the curving blade. β. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xi. 62 Sum..on quhitstanis thair axis scharpis at hame.1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xv. 84 Þow suld cut þat quhitstane in þi hand with ane rasoure. b. Any hard fine-grained rock, as novaculite, of which whetstones are made; hone-stone. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > for whetstones whetstone1578 hone1688 Mudgee1909 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > hard stone > whetstone whetstone1578 wolf-stone1640 hone1688 Water of Ayr stone1793 novaculite1794 Turkey hone1794 Turkey stone1816 whet-slate1839 1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery H iij b Like as what stone,..hardiest is with toole to bee graue, Doth sooner breake in peeces, then it bendeth. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 111 This shire is well stored with Milstones, Crystal, Alabaster and Whetstone. 1788 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) (at cited word) Bed of hones, or hone-pavement, one of the tools used in the operation of grinding specula for telescopes; formed of pieces of the finest blue hone or whetstone. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Edinburgh In the parish of Ratho is found a species of whetstone or hone, of the finest substance. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Whetstone, or Whetstone-sill, strata of argillaceous and siliceous hazle-stone in the carboniferous limestone formation. c. transferred. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > false conception or pregnancy molaa1398 mole?c1425 maw mother?c1475 mooncalf1565 whetstone1580 cushion1600 false conception1601 pseudocyesis1859 pseudopregnancy1860 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance ampereOE kernelc1000 wenc1000 knot?c1225 swella1250 bulchc1300 bunchc1325 bolninga1340 botcha1387 bouge1398 nodusa1400 oedemaa1400 wax-kernel14.. knobc1405 nodule?a1425 more?c1425 bunnyc1440 papa1450 knurc1460 waxing kernel?c1460 lump?a1500 waxen-kernel1500 bump1533 puff1538 tumour?1541 swelling1542 elevation1543 enlarging1562 knub1563 pimple1582 ganglion1583 button1584 phyma1585 emphysema?1587 flesh-pimple1587 oedem?a1591 burgeon1597 wartle1598 hurtle1599 pough1601 wart1603 extumescence1611 hulch1611 peppernel1613 affusion1615 extumescency1684 jog1715 knibloch1780 tumefaction1802 hunch1803 income1808 intumescence1822 gibber1853 tumescence1859 whetstone1886 tumidity1897 Osler's node1920 the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > disorders of udder udder-clap1825 udder-ill1847 gargil1886 whetstone1887 quarter evil1897 summer mastitis1929 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > udder > parts of spean1573 whetstone1887 1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 93^v A Mole in a womans body, otherwise called a whetston, or a moone Calfe [i.e. a false conception]. 1683 R. Thoresby Diary (1830) I. 155 This place [Grantham] is..chiefly noted of travellers, for a peculiar sort of thin cake, called Grantham Whetstones. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Whetstun,..any hard swelling. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Whetstone, a lump in the udder of a cow, consequent upon the ducts having been overcharged. 2. Allusive and figurative uses. a. gen. with reference to the use of a whetstone. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > means or instrument of preparation whetstone1387 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 341 He..whette þe rude soules to goode wiþ þe whestoun of vertues. 1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) vi. iii. f. 159 Except the sinfull harte of man..be often scoured with the whetstone of aduersitie. 1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde To Rdr. sig. C Shooting out their venemous shafts, with mischeeuous heads, sharpened vpon Martins most malicious whetstone. 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. F3^v The very name of Londoners being worse then ten whetstones to sharpen the sword of Iustice against them. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 165 Rhetoricall Topicks are such Whetstones, that even the Sword of the Spirit (that two-edged Sword) hath often used. 1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife iv. i. 67 He serves for nothing but a mere Whetstone of your Ill-humour. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xxxviii. 22 Boileau, whose rash envy could allow No strain which shamed his country's creaking lyre, That whetstone of the teeth—monotony in wire. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. iii. 61 The face of the Sovereign was a whetstone to the soldier's sword. b. in allusion to the former custom of hanging a whetstone round the neck of a liar; esp. in to lie for the whetstone, to be a great liar. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > custom of hanging whetstone round neck whetstone1418 society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (intransitive)] > be punished by whetstone to lie for the whetstone1418 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lie, tell lies [verb (intransitive)] > extremely, blatantly to lie for the whetstone1418 to lie in one's throat1566 to flap in the mouth (with a lie)1578 to flap the lie in one's teeth1650 1364 Liber Albus (Rolls) iv. 601 Juggement de Pillorie par iii heures, ove un ague pier entour soun col, pur mensonges controeves.] 1418 Cal. Let.-Bks. Lond., Let.-Bk. I (1909) 197 He, as a fals lyere..shal stonde..upon þe pillorye..wiþ a Westone aboute his necke. 1472 Cov. Leet Bk. 372 Nor that they frohensfurth enbrase eny jure, vppon the peyn to lese at þe first defalt, C s., and at þe ij de defalt to haue the wheston aboute their nekkes. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 254 A, good syr, lett hym oone. He lyes for the quetstone—I gyf hym the pryce! 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 196/1 Peraduenture he that was the inuentor fyrst of thys tale of the stone, was disposed to lie for the whetstone: Wherfore in my mynde he is worthy to haue it. 1577 W. Fulke Confut. Doctr. Purgatory 437 You haue sayd enough, M. Allen, to winne the whetstone, if it were as bigge as any mountaine in the worlde. 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 596 Of all the lowde lyes that euer I heard, this may goe for the whetstone. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes 267 Ware stumbling of whetstones in the darke there, my maisters. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 133 He might..for his labour challenge to be preferred to the Clarkship of the whetstone. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 135 Our worshipfull Clarkes of the whetstone, Doctour Clare [etc.]..diuers late Historiologers, and..this new Tale-founder himselfe. 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will in Wks. (Grosart) VI. 98 O intolerable lying villayne, that was never begotten without the consent of a whetstone! 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 639 They wil presently giue both these Authors and me the Whet-stone for rare vntruths. 1658 H. Edmundson Comes Facundus in Via: Fellow-traveller 285 A great Person..had in a frolick set on some wanton wits to lye for the Whetstone. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body iii. iv. 39 If you be not as errant a Cuckold, as e're drove Bargain upon the Exchange,..I am the Son of a Whetstone. 1792 J. Budworth Fortnight's Ramble Lakes 36 (note) It is a custom in the North, when a man tells the greatest lye in company, to reward him with a whetstone, which is called ‘Lying for a whetstone’. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) β. 1782 Exmoor Courtship (ed. 9) 20 What a gurt Lee es thate!..thek Man shou'd a' had the Whitstone. c. Something that sharpens the wits, desires, etc., or incites to action. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates prickleOE pritchOE alighting1340 brodc1375 bellowsc1386 pricka1387 motivec1390 prompting1402 preparativec1450 stirmentc1460 incentive?a1475 fomenta1500 farda1522 instigation1526 pointing1533 swinge1548 spur1551 whetstone1551 goad1567 promptitude1578 alarm1587 inducement1593 solicitor1594 incitement1596 inflammation1597 instance1597 excitement1604 moving spirit1604 heart-blood1606 inflamer1609 rouser1611 stimulator1614 motioner1616 incensivea1618 incitative1620 incitation1622 whettera1625 impulsivea1628 excitation1628 incendiary1628 dispositive1629 fomentationa1631 switch1630 stirrer1632 irritament1634 provocative1638 impetus1641 driving force1642 driving power1642 engagement1642 firer1653 propellant1654 fomentary1657 impulse1660 urgency1664 impeller1686 fillip1699 shove1724 incitive1736 stimulative1747 bonus1787 stimulus1791 impellent1793 stimulant1794 propulsion1800 instigant1833 propulsive1834 motive power1836 evoker1845 motivity1857 afflatus1865 flip1881 urge1882 agent provocateur1888 will to power1896 a shot in the arm1922 motivator1929 driver1971 co-driver1993 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > [noun] > sharpener whetstone1551 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason Ep. sig. Aiiij^v I professe to be but..a spurre or a whet stone, to sharpe the pennes of some other. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. Ep. to King By the readyng of wyttie artes (which be as the whette stones of witte). 1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 8^v The court Mamillia, is the whetston of lust, the baite of vanity, the call of Cupid. 1592 R. Greene Pandosto (new ed.) sig. B^v Preferment to a meane man, is a whetstone to courage. 1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgrimage B 3 Wits whetstone, want. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 37 For a whetstone, to pull on a cup of wine, we have dryed Neats tongues. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 358 The Wits..made him their Whetstone. 1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. ii. 31 Anger, which is said to be the whetstone of courage. a1822 P. B. Shelley in Relics (1862) 38 Let them read Shakespeare's sonnets, taking thence A whetstone for their dull intelligence. a1857 R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Remains (1858) I. 7 Their wit could content itself with no less royal a whet~stone than himself and his son Pius. β. 1617 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 240 I am of opinion that Goresano, our late jurebasso, is a whitston to egg hym on against us. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. whetstone-mountain n. ΚΠ 1851 B. Thorpe Northern Mythol. I. 71 The club was dashed in pieces, of which one portion fell on the earth, whence come all the whetstone mountains. b. whetstone-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 680/1 Whetstone-shaped crystals. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 114 The mucus..contains whetstone-shaped bodies. C2. † whetstone-leasing n. Obsolete see leasing n.¹ cf. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > telling of falsehoods, lying leasingc950 fablinga1300 lyinga1300 menteryc1450 blanching1581 forgery1582 whetstone-leasing1598 Creticism1614 mentition1656 falsehood1662 storytelling1681 mendaciloquencec1710 fibbing1749 economy of truth1796 fibbery1857 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 47 Whet-stone leasings of olde Maundeuile. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c725
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