Hone

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HONE, sb.1 Wor. Hrf. Also written one- Wor. [ōn.] In phr. to have the hone, to be lazy. Hrf. Occas. used (H.C.M.); Hrf.2 Thee hast got the hone. Hence Honey or Oney, adj. idle, lazy. w.Wor.1 ‘My son an't able to work d'yŭ saay?’ ‘E con if 'e's a mind, but 'e allus was oney.’ [The same word as ME. hone, delay, tarrying (Cursor M. 8413); cp. hone (hoyne), to delay, tarry (York Plays).]

HONE, sb.2 Obs. Dev. A long, flat piece of dry bread. Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.): Horae Subsecivae (1777) 215. [Prob. an extended use of hone (a whetstone for razors), see Hone, v.1]

HONE, sb.3 Pem. A lean horse. s.Pem. I moost put my hone in the trap an' car' yea (W.M.M.).

HONE, v.1 and sb.4 Sc. Irel. Wor. Amer. 1. v. To sharpen on a hone or whetstone. Per. He... could hone yer auld razor, Ford Harp (1893) 235. s.Wor. The 'ook waunts 'onin(g (H.K.). [Amer. Mr. Green... brought out a jack-knife, and commenced honing it on his shoe, Trowbridge Coupon Bonds, 286 (C.D.).] 2. sb. A whetstone. Dwn. A few strokes upon his hone made the razor all right, Lyttle Betsy Gray (1894) 20.

HONE, v.2 Sc. n.Cy. Lin. Stf. War. Wor. Shr. Dev. Amer. Also in forms hoin Lin.; hoon Slk.; hune Ags.; on s.Wor.1 [h)ōn, oən.] 1. To whine, complain, murmur. Sc. Thou awakest to hone, and pine, and moan, as if she had drawn a hot iron across thy lips, Scott Fair Maid of Perth (1828) v. Ags. (Jam.) Ayr. I honed on at my grandfather to take me to see it, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 58. Lin. A dog hoins for his master, Thompson Hist. Boston (1856) 710. Hence (1) Hoining, vbl. sb. moaning, complaining; (2) Hooning, ppl. adj. murmuring. (1) Lin.1 I don't like to go to see her because of her hoining. (2) Slk. I heard a kind o' hooning sound, Hogg Tales (1838) 175, ed. 1866. 2. With after or for: to repine for want of; to long or pine for. Cf. hunge, v. n.Cy. (Hall.) Stf. Ray (1691) MS. add. (J.C.) War.3 I think he's gettin' better ─ he's a beginning to hone arter his vittles. w.Wor.1 Thahr's on'y one thing 'e 'ones far, an' that's a drap o' cider. Shr.1 That poor cow's ‘ōnin’ after 'er cauve an' lowin' pitiful. 'E canna do no good at school, 'e does so 'one fur 'ome; Shr.2 This word was appropriately used in the following way, by a poor person towards his rector who was in the constant practice of rigorously exacting the utmost of his tithes: ‘One would think thee didst want thy money, for thee meetily honst after it.’ Dev. Lye (1743) (Hall.). [Amer. He des nat'ally hone fer ter be los' in de woods some mo', Harris Nights with Uncle Remus (1884) 54; Green Virginia Flk-Sp.][1. Fr. (Norm. dial.) hoigner, ‘hogner, geindre, pleurnicher, se lamenter’ (Moisy).]

HONE, v.3 Wor. Shr. Hrf. Pem. [ōn.] To ill-use, beat; to punish a child. Cf. hoin. s.Wor. (H.K.) Shr. Bound Provinc. (1876). Hrf.2 A boy speaks of honing another for getting him punished. s.Pem. (W.M.M.) Hence Honing, vbl. sb. a beating. s.Wor. (H.K.) s.Pem. That fellow ought to 'ave a good honing for 'is trick (W.M.M.).

HONE, see Ho(e, sb.2

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