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n. Any of various hard, dark-colored rocks, especially basalt and chert.

n. Any hard dark-coloured rock.

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.

n. Same as whin.

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

"From this outlet there is a continual descent towards Loch Eitive, and from hence the river Awe pours out its current in a furious stream, foaming over a bed broken with holes, and cumbered with masses of granite and whinstone."

stone    rock   

dry-stone    trachyte    quickset    earthern    augite