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no·vac·u·lite    Audio Help   [noh-vak-yuh-lahyt] Pronunciation Key
–noun Petrology.
a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.

[Origin: 1790–1800; < L novācul(a) a sharp knife, razor + -ite1]
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n.   A very hard, dense, even-textured, silica-bearing sedimentary rock used in whetstones.


[Latin novācula, razor + -ite1.]

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Novaculite

Hone\, n. [AS. h[=a]n; akin to Icel. hein, OSw. hen; cf. Skr. [,c][=a][.n]a, also [,c][=o], [,c]i, to sharpen, and E. cone. [root]38, 228.] 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. --Tusser.

Hone slateSee Polishing slate.

Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.
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