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• n  a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship
• v  scrub with a holystone
  holystone the ship's deck

• Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventhholystone the decks and scrape the cable.
• She plans to spend the coming winteras if in an attempt to holystone an overstuffed literary positionverse-pamphleteering about current events.
• When the mutineers try to make the captain holystone the deck, he kills the sober ringleader and is killed himself.