WHINSTONES

Noun

whinstones

plural of whinstone

Source: Wiktionary


WHINSTONE

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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