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whin·stone
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Princeton's WordNet
whinstone, whinnoun
any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
Wiktionary
whinstonenoun
Any hard dark-coloured rock.
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Whinstone
Whinstone is a term used in the quarrying industry to describe any hard dark-coloured rock. Examples include the igneous rocks, basalt and dolerite, as well as the sedimentary rock, chert.
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Whinstone is a type of hard, dark and fine-grained rock, such as basalt or diabase, typically used in road-making and building construction. The term is commonly used in the UK, especially in Scotland and northeast England.
Webster Dictionary
Whinstonenoun
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
Etymology: [Whin + stone; cf. Scot. quhynstane.]
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Whinstone
Whinstone is a term used in the quarrying industry to describe any hard dark-coloured rock. Examples include the igneous rocks basalt and dolerite as well as the sedimentary rock chert.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Whinstone
hwin′stōn, n. a popular name in Scotland for any hard and compact kind of stone, as distinguished from sandstone or freestone and rocks of slaty structure.—Also Whin. [Perh. corr. from whernstone, quernstone, stone suitable for querns.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of whinstone in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of whinstone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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