[Margaret Pilkington]

My gran used to scrub her front steps(there were about seven of them).......then she would donkey stone the sides of the steps, and woe betide if you walked on the donkey stoned bit........you would get a telling off, and if you did it again, you got your legs slapped.
They used to donkey stone the window bottoms too.
If you didn't do the donkey stoning, then you were known as a 'slattern'......not a good housewife....a bit of a slut, but not in the(bedroom) context it is used today.