sharpening stone

stone used to sharpen the edges of steel tools and implements through grinding and honing
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sharpening stone
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sharpening stone

Summary

sharpening stone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (288 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • sharpening stone's image is recorded as Sharpeningstone1.jpg[2].
  • sharpening stone's image is recorded as Whetstone Knife Sharpening, 2015-(01).jpg[3].
  • sharpening stone's subclass of is recorded as physical tool[4].
  • sharpening stone's subclass of is recorded as metalworking tool[5].
  • sharpening stone's subclass of is recorded as sharpening equipment[6].
  • sharpening stone's has use is recorded as sharpening[7].
  • sharpening stone's Commons category is recorded as Whetstones[8].
  • sharpening stone's source of energy is recorded as human energy[9].
  • sharpening stone's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07trp9[10].
  • sharpening stone's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300023299[11].
  • sharpening stone's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0199992[12].
  • sharpening stone's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • sharpening stone's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • sharpening stone's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[15].
  • sharpening stone's used by is recorded as knife grinder[16].
  • sharpening stone's different from is recorded as honing steel[17].
  • sharpening stone's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00080995n[18].
  • sharpening stone's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/122x_zlk[19].
  • sharpening stone's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as bryne_-_brynestein[20].
  • sharpening stone's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3957249[21].
  • sharpening stone's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 6189[22].
  • sharpening stone's Joconde object type ID is recorded as T505-2639[23].
  • sharpening stone's FactGrid item ID is recorded as Esteio[24].
  • sharpening stone's TOPCMB ID is recorded as pedra de afiar laminas[25].
  • sharpening stone's RKD thesaurus ID is recorded as 64946[26].

Why It Matters

sharpening stone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (288 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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  17. [18] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] . FactGrid. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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