By the faith of a knight, thou art welcome; I must borrow thy whetstone, to sharpen the edges of my martial compliments. MEN.

Thereupon they say that he immediately cut the whetstone in two.

When the day for whistles arrives he puts away marbles and hunts the whetstone.

'I play the whetstone; useless, and unfit To cut myself, I sharpen other's wit.' (Creech).

He snatched the whetstone from Ailward's hand and dealt him a blow on the head with it, stabbed him in the arm with a knife, and then triumphantly carried him to the house which, he had robbed, and there bound him as "an open thief" with the stolen goods upon him.

I stuck my whetstone in my hip-pocket, bent forward and cut the first short sharp swath in the clover.

He kept close to Sivert, and had to get him to use the whetstone every time.