honed
adjective
[ həʊnd ]
• (of a blade) sharpened.
• "a honed knife is easier and safer to handle than a dulled, nicked blade"
• having been refined or perfected over a period of time.
• "a finely honed performance"
hone
verb
• sharpen (a blade).
• "he was carefully honing the curved blade"
Similar:
sharpen,
make sharper,
make sharp,
whet,
strop,
grind,
file,
put an edge on,
edge,
acuminate,
• refine or perfect (something) over a period of time.
• "some of the best players in the world honed their skills playing street football"
• another way of saying home in on (see home).
• "the detectives honed in on the suspect"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old English hān ‘stone’, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse hein .
