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Whinstone

noun
1.
Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).  Synonym: whin.






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"Whinstone" Quotes from Famous Books



... little way ahead, and at the same time a light was seen away to the left, glimmering faintly through the darkness. It came home to the anxious crew with sickening certainty that they were being driven on the Farne Islands. [Now these islands form a group of desolate whinstone rocks lying off the Northumbrian coast. They are twenty in number, some only uncovered at low tide, and all offering a rugged iron wall to any ill-fated boat that may be driven upon them. Even in calm weather and by daylight seamen ...
— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Whinstone" :   stone, whin, rock



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