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• n  a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives

• When German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined the debate recently, the local newspaper, Liechtensteiner Vaterland, said she was "using Liechtenstein like a whetstone to sharpen her .
• On such a scarred old whetstone, durable (57) Actor Elliott Nugent honed his low-pressure comedy tools last week and turned Studio One's The Unmentionable Blues into one of the .
• Their bullets were chunks of brass curtain rod, which the women had sharpened by whetstone; the cartridges were loaded with a mixture of dynamite, amatol, and the flash powder .

News & Articles

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• Residents decry fence at city meeting
  At St. Augustine City Commission's meeting Monday night, not one city resident had a good word to say about the Whetstone's privacy fence on the Bridge of Lions.
  June 11, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record
• Segment missing from fence that has drawn opposition
  While the Florida Department of Transportation and local business owner Virginia Whetstone continue discussions about the fate of a fence on her property by the Bridge of Lions, the portion of the fence that extended onto the concrete cap of the bridge disappeared over the weekend.
  June 10, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record
• State, Whetstone in discussions over fence placement
  With one deadline already passed, the Florida Department of Transportation and the attorney for Virginia Whetstone are in discussions about the fate of the fence on her property by the Bridge of Lions.
  June 9, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record

Quotes

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• Robert Recorde in Boston Globe (registration)
  Robert Recorde, in 1557, wrote in "The Whetstone of Witte" that he would use two parallel lines of equal length to denote equality because "no two things can be more equal than these."