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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

So we'll rub her down and scrub her down with holystone and sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Banks of Newfoundland (3)] Reference

And on the seventh, -- holystone the decks and scrape the cable! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace] Reference

Birch stooped over his holystone, and Peters turned to go forward again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirate Shark] Reference

One of the small girls slipped on the wet patch left by Sharpe's holystone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

“Franklin, why in hell's name are you taking one hundred and thirty-four men?” rasped the holystone across rough wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graf Spee]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

And on the seventh, -- holystone the decks and scrape the cable. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

He went to the pump for more water, and the man crawled back to his holystone.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference

My head was like to burst, and my tongue was like a lump of holystone in my mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

He pointed to a man who with one hand was rubbing a small holystone in a corner where a large one would not go.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference

You see, the deck's as white as a holystone will make it, and your boots is black, and black and white never did agree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise] Reference

"It's a dreadful recollection, and I have that by my mizzen-mast which all the holystone in the world can never scour.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales] Reference

I need scarcely explain that holystone is a large soft stone, used with water, for scrubbing the dirt off the ship's decks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference

"It's full of red sand, and I've seen it covering the decks in some parts as if a man had been scraping a red holystone over them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

Smaller hand-stones, which the sailors call "prayer-books," are used to scrub in among the crevices and narrow places, where the large holystone will not go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

The brasswork in her gleamed in the sun like jewels set in ivory, for the woodwork was as near the whiteness of ivory as holystone and sharkskin could make it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference

Hose, mops, and holystone, until the teak looked as if it had just left the Rangoon sawmills; then the brass, every knob and piping, every latch and hinge and port loop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pagan Madonna] Reference

"Shall we holystone the decks, or scrub the lee scuppers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference

"I suppose you are going to take the morning watch and holystone the decks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob the Castaway] Reference

A damned thing to do but holystone decks, the like of an old pauper that does be scrubbing a poorhouse floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Bloweth] Reference

` ` prayer-books, '' are used to scrub in among the crevices and narrow places, where the large holystone will not go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

And on the seventh-holystone the decks and scrape the cable. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative] Reference

And on the seventh -- holystone the decks and scrape the cable. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

Fish ..... holystone.    From Wordnik.com.  [1Q 2010: Crist raises 1.1 million to Rubio’s 3.6. | RedState] Reference

Exactly ...... holystone.    From Wordnik.com.  [In an ideal world, this post would start a duel. | RedState] Reference

I'd holystone 'em till they was. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Middy and Ensign] Reference