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whin
[ win, hwin ]
noun
- any thorny or prickly shrub, especially gorse.
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Example Sentences
An' this winter whin iverything's so high an' wages not raised, a woman can't find enough to cook for her man's dinner.
We always kapes a full cupboard to thrate our neighbors wid whin they comes in.
On, ever on, in the darkness and the mire, through clumps of whin and stray bushes of wild briar.
Francie lay there in his appointed hiding-hole, looking abroad between two whin-bushes.
It always makes me feel aisier about mesilf whin I r-read how bad Julius Cayzar was.
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