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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
holystone .
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Examples
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Every deck was holystoned, every bit of brass polished, every rail festooned.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Every deck was holystoned, every bit of brass polished, every rail festooned.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Every deck was holystoned, every bit of brass polished, every rail festooned.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Every deck was holystoned, every bit of brass polished, every rail festooned.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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It was all clean and holystoned, but there was a strange, heavy smell about it that I couldn't place.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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It was all clean and holystoned, but there was a strange, heavy smell about it that I couldn't place.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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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 Clavell, James 1966
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At dawn Orlov turned out all hands and had the immaculate ship holystoned and cleaned.
Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966
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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 Elliott Whitney
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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 Elliott Whitney
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