whinstone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of whinstone
1505–15; dial. ( Scots and N England) whin whinstone ( Middle English quin < ?) + stone
Example Sentences
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Made of Scottish whinstone, the lecterns were commissioned by the Guardians of Scotland Trust, set up in 2011 to mark the equal contribution made by Wallace and de Moray in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
From BBC ● May 29, 2015
Then I took down my father's sword from its deer-horn brackets over the chimney-piece, and set myself to fine its edge and point with a bit of Scotch whinstone.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
They all had their book-bags, pockets, and arms filled with stones lately broken for mending the turnpike road, mostly granite, but partly whinstone and flint.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
In like manner granite is a composition which graduates into porphyry; but porphyry is only whinstone of a harder species.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton
The stones and rocks were generally hard whinstone, or freestone, the former in large masses; the beach, of pebbles of all colours and kinds, from quartz to sandstone.
From Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley
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