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WHINSTONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
Synonyms:
whin; whinstone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("whinstone" is a kind of...):
rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)