whinstone

[ hwin-stohn, win- ]

/ ˈʰwɪnˌstoʊn, ˈwɪn- /

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noun

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

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Origin of whinstone

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

Words nearby whinstone

whiner, whing-ding, whinge, whining, whinny, whinstone, whiny, whio, whip, whip-and-tongue graft, whipbird

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How to use whinstone in a sentence

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.”
In Texas, a strained grid braces for more crypto mining|Thor Benson|August 1, 2022|Popular-Science
Below this mass lies a pale red hardened sandstone, and beneath that a trap-like whinstone.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa|David Livingstone
The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone—a sort of slag.
An Introduction to the History of Science|Walter Libby
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.
Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]|Mungo Park

Fire flew from the smitten blue whinstone where the point, with all the weight of his young body behind it, impinged on the wall.
The Black Douglas|S. R. Crockett
It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone.
Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2)|George Grey

British Dictionary definitions for whinstone

whinstone

/ (ˈwɪnˌstəʊn) /

noun

any dark hard fine-grained rock, such as basalt

Word Origin for whinstone

C16: from whin ² + stone

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