What's the difference between whin and whinstone?

Whin


Definition:

  • (n.) Gorse; furze. See Furze.
  • (n.) Woad-waxed.
  • (n.) Same as Whinstone.

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  • (1) It’s a tight-knit community,” said resident David Whin.
  • (2) We specially stress surgical problems, the value of radical surgery whin possible.

Whinstone


Definition:

  • (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.

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