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HOLYSTONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("holystone" is a kind of...):
sandstone (a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.))
Derivation:
holystone (scrub with a holystone)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scrub with a holystone
Example:
holystone the ship's deck
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "holystone" is one way to...):
scour; scrub (clean with hard rubbing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
holystone (a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship)
