See whinstone on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Possibly corrupted from quern stone, i.e. stone suitable for making querns; or else, from whin + stone.",
"forms": [
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"form": "whinstones",
"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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"expansion": "whinstone (usually uncountable, plural whinstones)",
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],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle."
],
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"whin",
"whin"
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},
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"ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, chapter IV, in Wuthering Heights:",
"text": "‘A rough fellow, rather, Mrs. Dean. Is not that his character?‘ ‘Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.’",
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"Any hard dark-coloured rock."
],
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"qualifier": "quarrying industry",
"raw_glosses": [
"(quarrying industry) Any hard dark-coloured rock."
],
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"etymology_text": "Possibly corrupted from quern stone, i.e. stone suitable for making querns; or else, from whin + stone.",
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"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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"A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle."
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"whin",
"whin"
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{
"ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, chapter IV, in Wuthering Heights:",
"text": "‘A rough fellow, rather, Mrs. Dean. Is not that his character?‘ ‘Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.’",
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"Any hard dark-coloured rock."
],
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"(quarrying industry) Any hard dark-coloured rock."
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"whinstone"
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