Bible Dictionaries
Whinstone
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.
Text Courtesy of
BibleSupport.com. Used by Permission.
Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Whinstone'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/whinstone.html. 1828.