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Definition of Whinstone
1. Noun. Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).
Definition of Whinstone
1. 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.
2. 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.
Definition of Whinstone
1. Noun. (context: quarrying industry) Any hard dark-coloured rock. ¹
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Definition of Whinstone
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