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whinstone
[ hwin-stohn, win- ]
noun
- Chiefly British. any of the dark-colored, fine-grained rocks, especially igneous rocks, as dolerite and basalt.
whinstone
/ ˈwɪnˌstəʊn /
noun
- any dark hard fine-grained rock, such as basalt
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Origin of whinstone1
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Origin of whinstone1
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Example Sentences
Below this mass lies a pale red hardened sandstone, and beneath that a trap-like whinstone.
The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone—a sort of slag.
In a short time we arrived at a pretty large river, called Boki, which we forded; it ran smooth and clear over a bed of whinstone.
Fire flew from the smitten blue whinstone where the point, with all the weight of his young body behind it, impinged on the wall.
It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone.
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