WHINSTONE


Meaning of WHINSTONE in English

noun 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.

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