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Holystone
Definitions
- 1 A piece of soft sandstone used for scouring the wooden decks of ships, usually with sand and seawater.
- 2 a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship wordnet
- 3 A stone with a naturally-formed hole, used by Yorkshiremen for good luck.
- 1 To use a holystone. transitive
"Six days shalt thou labour and do all thou art able, And on the seventh—holystone the decks and scrape the cable."
- 2 scrub with a holystone wordnet
Etymology
Uncertain, but equivalent to holy + stone. As an amulet, probably from holey (“having a hole”). As a scouring stone, variously derived from holey, from the amulet, from its association with Sunday cleaning, from its users' adoption of a kneeling position similar to prayer, and (least likely) from their original provision by raiding graveyards for tombstones.
Uncertain, but equivalent to holy + stone. As an amulet, probably from holey (“having a hole”). As a scouring stone, variously derived from holey, from the amulet, from its association with Sunday cleaning, from its users' adoption of a kneeling position similar to prayer, and (least likely) from their original provision by raiding graveyards for tombstones.
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