Hone vs. Strop — What's the Difference?

A fine-grained whetstone for giving a keen edge to a cutting tool.

A strap, especially a short rope whose ends are spliced together to make a ring.

A tool with a rotating abrasive tip for enlarging holes to precise dimensions.

A flexible strip of leather or canvas used for sharpening a razor.

To sharpen on a fine-grained whetstone.

To sharpen (a razor) on a strop.

To perfect or make more intense or effective

A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called razor strop.

To whine or moan.

(nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

To hanker; yearn.

(British) A bad mood or temper.

A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.

(obsolete) To strap.

A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

(recorded since 1842; now most used) To hone (a razor) with a strop.

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

(computing) To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.

To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.

To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

To refine or master (a skill).

To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.

To make more acute, intense, or effective.

A leather strap used to sharpen razors

To grumble.

Sharpen on a strop;

To pine, lament, or long.

To grumble; pine; lament; long.

To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.

To render more precise or more effective; as, to hone one's skills.

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.

A whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

Sharpen with a hone;

Make perfect or complete;