subs. phr. (gaming).—1. A pack of cards.
2. (nautical).—A small holy-stone; a BIBLE (q.v.).—CLARK RUSSELL (1883).
1840. R. H. DANA, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, xxiii. Smaller hand-stones, which the sailors call PRAYER-BOOKS, are used to scrub in among the crevices and narrow places, where the large holystone will not go.
