Squires tossed pails of water over cookfires, while soldiers took out their oilstones to give their blades one last good lick.

"There, across the yard, at the door of the armory, do you see the boy squatting by the steps honing a sword with an oilstone?"

If it is too coarse it leaves a rough edge, which may, however, be smoothed with an oilstone slip.