GRINDSTONE in a Sentence

Learn GRINDSTONE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for GRINDSTONE, such as:
1. We smouched the grindstone, and set out to roll her home, but it was a most nation tough job.
2. There's a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we'll smooch it, and carve the things on it.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GRINDSTONE
grindstone
 n.  a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools
Classic Sentence:
1  It warn't no slouch of an idea; and it warn't no slouch of a grindstone nuther; but we allowed we'd tackle it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
2  We smouched the grindstone, and set out to roll her home, but it was a most nation tough job.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
3  Our hole was pretty big, but it warn't big enough to get the grindstone through; but Jim he took the pick and soon made it big enough.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
4  My jack-knife here needs the grindstone.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
Example Sentence:
1  There's a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we'll smooch it, and carve the things on it.
2  A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.