Word.ws English Dictionary

holystoned

holystoned is the simple past and past participle of holystone.

Meaning of holystone

Verb

holystone (third-person singular simple present holystones, present participle holystoning, simple past and past participle holystoned)

  1. (transitive) To use a holystone.
    • Six days shalt thou labour and do all thou art able,
      And on the seventh—holystone the decks and scrape the cable.1840, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years before the Mast, page 6

See all 3 meanings of holystone

Questions about holystoned

What is holystoned the simple past and past participle of?
Holystoned is the simple past and past participle of holystone.

Words near holystoned in the dictionary

  1. Holyokian
  2. Holyokians
  3. Holyrood
  4. Holyshiv
  5. holystone
  6. holystoned
  7. holystones
  8. holystoning
  9. holytide
  10. holytides
  11. Holytown

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: holystoned (page history and authors); holystone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “holystoned.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/holystoned. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.