whetstones

They're not "wet stones" but rather "whetstones" as in "whet: to make keen or more acute;" whet my appetite "; to sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone"

Learn To Sharpen Good Knives With Water Stones | Lifehacker Australia 2010

They're not "wet stones" but rather "whetstones" as in "whet: to make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"; to sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone"

Learn To Sharpen Good Knives With Water Stones | Lifehacker Australia 2010

The third was stacked with ammunition, grenades, flash bombs, whetstones, reloading supplies, cleaning paraphernalia, and boxes of power bars, jars of peanut butter, cases of Gatorade, and several jugs of Mountain Dew.

Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

I use natural whetstones exclusively to sharpen knives, then touch them up with a leather strop or a sharpening steel.

Video Clip: About Ceramic Sharpeners 2008

I hone it with the cheapo V sharpener that came with it every month or so, and every six months or so I caress it across my whetstones.

Meathead Goldwyn: Barbecue & Grilling Holiday Gift Guide Meathead Goldwyn 2010

I hone it with the cheapo V sharpener that came with it every month or so, and every six months or so I caress it across my whetstones.

Meathead Goldwyn: Barbecue & Grilling Holiday Gift Guide Meathead Goldwyn 2010

Even from the distance, she could distinguish the distinctive sounds coming from the group of special tents-hear it over the laughing and singing, the crackle of fires, the sizzle of meat in skillets, the scraping rasp of whetstones on metal, the ring of hammers on steel, and the rhythm of saws.

Men Don't Leave Me 2010

Holding two knives in his hand, he sat on his machine—it was one of the foot-pedaled whetstones—and began pedaling.

THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008

But the objects of her zealous contemplation naturally also served as whetstones to sharpen her critical faculties, and she would sometimes measure against one another, brutishly, not only literary giants but also, apparently, friends, elevating and lowering them in her estimation at one another's expense, and, like the Queen of Hearts, send heads rolling.

Becoming Susan Sontag Eisenberg, Deborah 2008

Even if it's nothing more than he's got an axe to grind, you'd think he'd go looking for other whetstones.

unbelievable 2006