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whinstone (n)
any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
whinstone (n.)
A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
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whinstone
any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to
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whinock => whinock, whinnying => whinnying, whinny => whinny, whinnies => whinnies, whinnied => whinnied,
