How to pronounce holystone
American English pronunciation
HOH-lee-stohn
- IPA
- /ˈhoʊliˌstoʊn/
- Syllables
- HOH · lee · stohn (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What holystone means
A soft stone sailors used to scrub a ship's wooden deck
In a sentence: The sailors knelt with sand and seawater and rubbed the deck smooth with a holystone.
Where it comes from: It looks like holy plus stone, but no one is sure why it got that name. One idea is that some of these stones had holes in them.
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