holystone

How To Use holystone In A Sentence

• It was all clean and holystoned, but there was a strange, heavy smell about it that I couldn't place. Flash For Freedom
• We junior cadets were made to go down on our knees in rows and scrub the wooden decks with holystones in a to and fro motion.
• Every deck was holystoned, every bit of brass polished, every rail festooned. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
• The decks of this late Victorian Navy were holystoned white.
• At dawn Orlov turned out all hands and had the immaculate ship holystoned and cleaned. Tai-Pan
• He climbed aboard and ordered the spotless ship cleaned and the decks holystoned — sand and broom and water — rigging replaced, sails tended, scuppers and cannon cleansed. Tai-Pan
• holystone the ship's deck
• Looking out the door of the companionway on to the starboard deck-alley of the yacht, they saw that the awnings were up and the decks were being holystoned. The Pirate Shark
• Indeed, the principal use for a crew aboard the _Seamew_ was to keep the brasswork polished and the decks holystoned, it seemed to Mart. The Pirate Shark