Definition of "holystoning" [holystoning]

• Present participle of holystone. (verb)

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• "Pankburn did the dirty tasks, scraping masts, holystoning decks, working the alcohol poison out of his system."
• "Still, he'd agreed that those men without specific duties that day — holystoning the lower deck, the usual watches, deicing the rigging, deck shoveling, ship repair, cairn repair, tutoring — could go work on final preparations for the masque, and about a dozen men headed off into the darkness after breakfast, two Marines with muskets accompanying them."
• "Overhead came the rumble and scrape of crewmen holystoning the decks for the second time that day."