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whinstone
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun whinstone has 1 sense
- whinstone(n = noun.object) whin - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt); Array is a kind of rock, stone
CIDE DICTIONARY
whinstone, n. [Whin + stone; cf. Scot. quhynstane.].
A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt. [1913 Webster]
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