What does "holystone" mean?
Holystone: A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships. Totten.
Additional senses
- 2.To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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