Holystone

The holystone is a large, soft stone, smooth on the bottom, with long ropes attached to each end, by which the crew keep it sliding fore and aft, over the wet, sanded decks. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The holystone is a large, soft stone, smooth on the bottom, with long ropes attached to each end, by which the crew keep it sliding fore and aft over the wet sanded decks. ❋ Richard Henry Dana (1848)

For similar reasons he worked and re-worked the story of Galadriel, thinking to make her perfect with emery and holystone, but in truth only reducing her to a plaster saint. ❋ Superversive (2008)

“Franklin, why in hell's name are you taking one hundred and thirty-four men?” rasped the holystone across rough wood. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)

Ross's voice was as rough as a holystone dragged across a splintered deck. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)

If my boot should leave a stain on the marble, George must not holystone it away. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

No more to be trampled and stamped upon with shifty, sloppy feet — no more to be scrubbed and scored with sand and holystone; painted white, it creaks gratefully every time it swings — the symbol of security, the first outward and visible sign of home, the guardian of the sacred rights of private property, the embodiment of the exclusive. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It had taken the ship's boy the better part of a day to holystone that rogue's bloodstain from the Springeve's deck. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1999)

So we'll rub her down and scrub her down with holystone and sand ❋ Unknown (1996)

One of the small girls slipped on the wet patch left by Sharpe's holystone. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1992)

At the same time Lt. Kemball and I kept the remainder occupied in breaking up blocks of holystone in an effort to make sand out of them .... ❋ Pope, Dudley (1956)

And on the seventh, -- holystone the decks and scrape the cable! ' ❋ Unknown (N/A)

He settled himself against the mast, gave a final polish to his hook with holystone, and using the hook every now and then to punctuate his narrative, began. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)

She found in the old sea dog a ready companion, and he rattled along in his whimsical, uncouth language, spinning endless yarns of a "Hadmiral as prayed to a paint pot" and "cleaned his bloomin 'teeth wi' holystone," until the girl unconsciously resumed her brisk, tireless step and found herself laughing merrily in spite of her disease of mind. ❋ Aylward Edward Dingle (N/A)

We'll holystone 'em an 'slush 'em with hot tar if they give any trouble! ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)

Birch stooped over his holystone, and Peters turned to go forward again. ❋ Elliott Whitney (N/A)