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. Source: opted

2. n. any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) Source: wordnet

3. 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. Source: webster

4. A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, andapplied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rockswhich resist the point of the pick.-- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, arenames sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt. Source: adambom

5. n. any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) Source: ecdict

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