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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 whin·stone /ˈhwɪnˌston, ˈwɪn-/
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Whin·stone 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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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 whinstone
      n : any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks
          consisting of chert or basalt) [syn: whin]