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(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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Whinstone'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​w/whinstone.html. 1828.
 
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