Definition of whinstone Whinstone
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What does whinstone mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: whinstones |
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| whinstone - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) | ||
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Wiktionary 
- whinstone (Noun)
Any hard dark-coloured rock.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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.
