Word
Whinstone
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2 Syllables
How it's divided?
whin-stone
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.
- noun - Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
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