HOLYSTONE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)