Usually means: Hard, dark-colored igneous rock.
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  1. whinstone: Merriam-Webster
  2. whinstone, whinstone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whinstone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whinstone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. whinstone: Vocabulary.com
  6. whinstone: Wordnik
  7. whinstone: Wiktionary
  8. whinstone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. whinstone: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. whinstone: Dictionary.com
  11. Whinstone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Whinstone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. whinstone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. whinstone: Rhymezone
  15. Whinstone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. whinstone: FreeDictionary.org
  17. whinstone: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. whinstone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. whinstone: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whinstone: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whinstone)

▸ noun:  A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle.
▸ noun:  (quarrying industry) Any hard dark-coloured rock.

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whinestone, whimstone, whitestone, stean, quernstone, grindle-stone, scythestone, fieldstone, stoneworks, stone wall, more...

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whinestone, whimstone, whitestone, stean, quernstone, grindle-stone, scythestone, fieldstone, stoneworks, stone wall, more...



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