WHINSTONE

whinstone, whin

(noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

whinstone (usually uncountable, plural whinstones)

(quarrying industry) Any hard dark-coloured rock.

Synonym: whin

Anagrams

• non-whites, nonwhites

Source: Wiktionary

Whin"stone", n. Etym: [Whin + stone; cf. Scot. quhynstane.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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