whinstone
Meanings
noun
- A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle.
- Any hard dark-coloured rock.
Word forms
Etymology
Possibly corrupted from quern stone, i.e. stone suitable for making querns; or else, from whin + stone.
Synonyms
Previous
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.