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Whinstone

noun
1.
Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).  Synonym: whin.





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"Whinstone" Quotes from Famous Books



... hills are covered with a hard, tough, useless sort of whinstone, which adds considerably to the expense of building on them. Others are well stocked with granite, which the Chinese masons split very neatly into any shape, by driving innumerable wedges into the blocks. The adroitness with which they do this, is quite surprising. The China ...
— Trade and Travel in the Far East - or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, - Singapore, Australia and China. • G. F. Davidson
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Words linked to "Whinstone" :   rock, stone


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