Whinstone is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WHINSTONE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a hard and compact rock, also WHUNSTANE
• any dark hard fine-grained rock, such as basalt
• 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.
• any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
• a hard, dark basaltic rock such as that of the Whin Sill in Northern England.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• basaltic rock; trap; any of various other dark resistant rocks (as chert)

Words related to WHINSTONE

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Words that contain WHINSTONE

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How to use WHINSTONE in a sentence

• The best descendants of Alister were Kildee, Tiree, Whinstone, Prince Alexander, and Heather Prince.
• The Castle, which stands on a lofty whinstone rock at the south-east corner of the island, is a conspicuous object for many miles, whether viewed by land or sea.
• It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone.
• Think what these black bare lumps of whinstone are, and what they do.
• There is no lack of sandstone, slate and whinstone.
• We crossed much good whinstone land, and arrived at a small ridge where I ascended a hill consisting of a reddish granite or porphyry.
• Whatever, therefore, shall be ascertained with regard to our whin-stone, may be so far generalized or extended to the countries of Norway, Sweden, and Germany.
• The strata appear to have been broken, and the two correspondent parts of those strata are separated to admit the flowing mass of whin-stone.
• But in the unerupted species of lava, that is to say, in our whin-stone, every species of mineral appearance is occasionally to be found.
• In the two veins above mentioned, of whin-stone and spar traversing the strata, the colour of the strata is, discharged more or less in the places contiguous with the veins.
• It is a great mass of red whin-stone, of a very irregular structure and composition.
• Some of it is full of small pebbles of calcareous spar, surrounded with a coat of a coloured substance, different both from the whin-stone ground and the inclosed pebble.
• This happens sometimes to a part of a coal stratum which approaches the whin-stone.
• It is in the harbour of Ayr, where a whinstone dyke traverses the coal strata, and includes some of that substance in the state of coals or cinder.

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