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Definition of whinstone

English to English

noun

any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

source: WordNet 3.0

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.

source: Webster 1913

Nearby Word

whinstone, wingstem