Spherical hard stone hammers (6) were held in the hand for dressing down granite.
Flint scrapers were used in dressing down limestone sculpture in the IIIrd Dynasty.
You might for instance, in reprimanding someone, give them a ' dressing down '.
Perhaps this is understandable after the dressing down he got from his father when he caught a trout on a live grasshopper.
William's a little sheepish by the dressing down.