Holystone

Definition: Holystone

1. A soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship.

1. Scrub with a holystone, as of a ship's deck.

Specialty Definition: Holystone

Domain	Definition
Literature	Holystone A soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of vessels. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mining	A. A soft sandstone used to scrub a ship's decks b. To scrub with a holystone c. Eng. Limestone full of holes, white limestones of the Great Oolite near Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, used for megalithic monuments. (references)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Holystone

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable. Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance.
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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Holystone

Modern Translation: Holystone

Language		Translations for "holystone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gur i butë ranor. (various references)

Bulgarian		търкам палуба с пемза, пемза (paris white, pumice, pumice stone). (various references)

Greek		ελαφρόπετρα (pumice). (various references)

Pig Latin		olystonehay.(various references)

Romanian		piatrã de curãţat puntea. (various references)

Russian		мягкий песчаник, пемза (pumice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		peščar za ribanje. (various references)

Swedish		skursten (hearthstone). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Holystone

Derivations
	Words beginning with "holystone": holystoned, holystones. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Holystone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haystoun, Helpstone, Holestone, holeystone, Holston, Hurlestone, Khlystun. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Holystone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-l-n-o-o-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: honestly.
	-2 letters: honesty, looneys, soothly.
	-3 letters: ethnos, ethyls, helots, honest, honeys, hooeys, hostel, hostly, hotels, hoyles, lentos, looeys, looney, loosen, shelty, snooty, soothe, stolen, stolon, stoney, telson, tholes, tholos, toyons.
	-4 letters: enols, ethos, ethyl, helos, helot, hents, holes, holey, holts, hones, honey, hooey, hooly, hoots, hooty, hosel, hosen, hotel, hotly, hoyle, hyson, lenos, lento.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-l-n-o-o-s-t-y"
	+1 letter: holystoned, holystones.
	+5 letters: anesthesiology.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
holystone	4
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