holystoning

Pankburn did the dirty tasks, scraping masts, holystoning decks, working the alcohol poison out of his system.

“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

Usually, on a ship at sea, the men would be rousted from their hammocks in half an hour to begin holystoning the decks and cleaning everything in sight.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

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.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Overhead came the rumble and scrape of crewmen holystoning the decks for the second time that day.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Eh, but it was a comfort this morning not to hear the holystoning on the deck.

The Newcomes 2006

Up near the bow, several crewmen were down on their knees, enthusiastically holystoning the deck; amidships, a group of ten or so were going through gun drill.

INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000

Bel-Sidek was hard at it, holystoning the foredeck of a tubby merchantman out of Pella, a Herodian tributary where friends of the Living worked the docks.

The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

Right now he would cheerfully have traded all the holystoning going on in the downlevels for one particular piece of good news.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

Right now he would cheerfully have traded all the holystoning going on in the downlevels for one particular piece of good news.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

Right now he would cheerfully have traded all the holystoning going on in the downlevels for one particular piece of good news.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983