whinstone

[ hwin-stohn, win- ]

noun

1. Chiefly British. any of the dark-colored, fine-grained rocks, especially igneous rocks, as dolerite and basalt.

whinstone

/ ˈwɪnˌstəʊn /

noun

1. any dark hard fine-grained rock, such as basalt

Word History and Origins

Origin of whinstone¹

1505–15; dial. ( Scots and N England) whin whinstone ( Middle English quin < ?) + stone

Word History and Origins

Origin of whinstone¹

C16: from whin ² + stone

Example Sentences

The report states that crypto companies like Whinstone, Core Scientific, Argo Blockchain, and Lancium receive long-term energy contracts that provide them “cheap wholesale energy.”

From Popular-Science

Below this mass lies a pale red hardened sandstone, and beneath that a trap-like whinstone.

From Project Gutenberg

The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone—a sort of slag.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Fire flew from the smitten blue whinstone where the point, with all the weight of his young body behind it, impinged on the wall.

From Project Gutenberg

It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone.

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