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HICKORY TREE HONE = MILLIE-BACK HONE?

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Entry 12157

Volume 5 · printed page 4287 · Wilson, N. Car.

Well a hickory tree, yo' kin take dat an' cut it down an' put it, an' make a razor rock [first and only time I ever heard this name] out it, whut chew call a molly-backbone [molly-back hone]. Mah father made one outa dat an' let it stay 'bout seven or eight yeahs in watah an' it turnt to a molly-back hone, razor rock.

(A razor rock, for sharpening a razor?)

Yessir.

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