holystoning

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

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