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Holystone

noun
1.
A soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship.





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"Holystone" Quotes from Famous Books



... labour, and do all thou art able, And on the seventh, holystone the decks and scrape ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.
... was begun and consummated between six and six-thirty, except in rainy weather. Hose, mops, and holystone, until the teak looked as if it had just left the Rangoon sawmills; then the brass, every knob and piping, every latch and hinge and port loop. The care given the yacht since leaving the Yang-tse might be well called ingratiating. Never was a crew more ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath
... the mast, gave a final polish to his hook with holystone, and using the hook every now and then to ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang


Words linked to "Holystone" :   sandstone, scrub, scour


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