There were several whetstones and fragments of querns; but no traces of woodwork remained visible, though possibly by digging through the sand and stones, of which the shoal is chiefly composed, some discoveries might be made.
Four whetstones of the usual four-sided crannog type; they vary in size from six inches to four inches in length.
Polishers and whetstones also, numerous, the latter sometimes perforated for suspension.
Hammer-stones, polishers, and whetstones were comparatively rare, only some half dozen being found.
XV But what availed her resolution chaste, Whose soberest looks were whetstones to desire?
And they sharpened their scythes with the whetstones and swung the scythes back and forth and began to cut down the wheat.
When the men heard the horn, they took their coats and their scythes and their whetstones and the jug, and they went back along the road to the farm-house and left the grass lying there, just as it fell down.
So, very early the next morning, Uncle Solomon and Uncle John took their scythes and their whetstones and went over to the great enormous field, and two other men came to help.
Then Uncle John and Uncle Solomon got their scythes and their whetstones and started very early in the morning to the wheat-field.
Cast thou not therefore on this soil of mine Whetstones that sharpen souls to bloodshedding.
Even now fate whets the steel On whetstones new and deadlier than of old, The steel that smites, in Justice' hold, Another death to deal.
The whetstones and farming implements are placed in a heap in the public part of the Dyak house.
After the feast is over, the whetstones are taken to the different farms, and the work of cutting down the jungle for planting begins.
Offerings are made to the whetstones with a request that they may sharpen the tools and thus lighten the labours of their owners.
Whetstones are common objects in the finds from any Roman settlement, but they are not ground to regular shapes as our whetstones are.
There are several whetstones from Stabiae in the Naples Museum which are classed among surgical implements.
One of the marble ointment tablets had, we saw, been used as a whetstone, but the whetstones for which Naxos was famous must, if not emery, have been some variety of shale or slate.
We saw that several of the slabs on which ointments were prepared had evidently been used for sharpening knives, and whetstones are often found of varying degrees of roughness from sandstone to fine argillaceous smooth stones.
The remaining whetstones are of very much the same pattern.
Ready-made stone articles, like the whetstones mentioned by Dr.
A few such whetstones have been collected on other parts of the northwest coast as far south as the northern shore of Norton Sound.
There are a few of these whetstones still in use at the present day, and they are very highly prized.
Simpson was informed[N95] that the stones for making whetstones were brought from the Kuwuk River, so that this jade is probably the same as that which is said to form Jade Mountain, in that region.
We have also discovered here many weapons of diorite and hard green stone, as well as a number of whetstones of black and green slate with a hole at one end.
Some early Spanish[2051] whetstoneshave one and even two perforations at each end.
Whetstones are, of course, commonly found with Roman domestic antiquities; with Saxon, which are usually of a more purely sepulchral character, they are rarely discovered.
It will naturally be inquired, for what purpose were these whetstones required, and what is the meaning of all these marks of wear on the edges of the flint tools, as if they had been used for scraping some hard substance?
Hoare considered whetstones of this kind to have been used for sharpening and bringing to a point, pins and other implements of bone, and they seem well adapted for such a purpose, and are still so used by the Eskimos.
Two perforated whetstones were found with a bronze dagger and pin in the Silk Hill Barrow,[1123] Wilts.
The axes are kept keen and sharp by whetstones collected and preserved solely for the purpose.
Over his shoulder he carried his club, and that also was of stone, the kind from which whetstones are made, hard and terrible.
The club was dashed into pieces; some fragments fell upon the earth; and these, they say, are the rocks from which whetstones are made unto this day.
Tools, of course, needed sharpening, and various specimens of whetstoneswere found; (see Fig.
I didn't suppose that we'd get more than two to-day, and figured that we would take them down to camp, but after this I think it would be a good idea for us to carry our skinning knives and whetstones with us.
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