holystoning

Sunday morning, surely to God, and you would be at your holystoning?'

Still, all the holystoning in the world could not disguise the fact that thirty-four human beings occupied this limited space, and only one of us bathed.

The deck was almost white from vigorous holystoning, and the brasswork's shine showed that many men had been busy polishing with brickdust.

In the days since the Calypso left Antigua, he had kept the ship's company busy holystoning, scrubbing and polishing, making up for a year's neglect by the French.

It was appalling to a man raised to daily holystoning of the deck that aviators should leave their beasts to keep themselves clean, and as he rubbed down the sleek black sides, he suddenly considered the harness.