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whinstone
[ hwin-stohn, win- ]
noun
- Chiefly British. any of the dark-colored, fine-grained rocks, especially igneous rocks, as dolerite and basalt.
whinstone
/ ˈwɪnˌstəʊn /
noun
- any dark hard fine-grained rock, such as basalt
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Word History and Origins
Origin of whinstone1
1505–15; dial. ( Scots and N England) whin whinstone ( Middle English quin < ?) + stone
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Word History and Origins
Origin of whinstone1
C16: from whin ² + stone
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Example Sentences
Below this mass lies a pale red hardened sandstone, and beneath that a trap-like whinstone.
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The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone—a sort of slag.
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In a short time we arrived at a pretty large river, called Boki, which we forded; it ran smooth and clear over a bed of whinstone.
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Fire flew from the smitten blue whinstone where the point, with all the weight of his young body behind it, impinged on the wall.
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It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone.
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