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Definition: WHINSTONE |
WHINSTONENoun1. 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. |
Date "WHINSTONE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Note: Whinstone \Whin"stone"\, noun. [Whin stone; compare to Scottish quhynstane.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A colloquial British term for dolerite, basalt, and other dark fine-grained igneous rocks. The term is derived from the Whin Sill innorthern England. CF:trap. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WHINSTONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | whinclagh. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | instonewhay yol yapımında kullanılan sert taş (whin). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "WHINSTONE": whinstones. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nonwhites. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-n-o-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: nonwhite. | |
-2 letters: ethions, histone, intones, newtons, tension, tonnish, townies, townish, wennish, whitens. | |
-3 letters: ethion, ethnos, honest, intone, intown, newish, newton, ninths, nitons, nonets, nowise, sennit, sonnet, swithe, tennis, tenons, theins, tonish, tonnes, towies, townie, twines, whines, whiten, whites, winoes, wisent, withes. | |
-4 letters: enows, eosin, ethos, heist, hents, hints, hoise, hoist, hones, hosen, howes, inset. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-n-o-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: whinstones. | |
+3 letters: unworthiness. | |
+4 letters: downrightness. | |
+5 letters: newsworthiness, noteworthiness, unworthinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 48 49 4E 53 54 4F 4E 45 |
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