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Meanings of whin in English

Portuguese
tojo
Catalan
argelaga
Spanish
ulex

Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.

        tojo

        Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental.

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            1
            Heather tips, dyer's broom, dock roots, poplar leaves, saw wort are also good yellows for dyeing green.
            Vegetable Dyes: Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Us...

            Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

                  Usage of whin in English
                  1
                  The warm sweet smell of the whin bloom was in the air.
                  The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (12...
                  2
                  Francie lay there in his appointed hiding-hole, looking abroad between two whin-bushes.
                  Lay Morals, and Other Papers
                  3
                  Well, as I said, whin five months had gone by they met.
                  Wild Youth, Volume 2.
                  4
                  An' whin we got up to the top of the city, 'Mrs.
                  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XV...
                  5
                  Mariar she used ter live thar whin Mis' Celie wus a baby.
                  My Lady of the North
                  6
                  I was jokin' wid ye, whin I called ye this or that.
                  A Romany of the Snows, Complete / Being a Continuation of the Pe...
                  7
                  Jack himself is no slouch whin it comes to stowing away things.
                  Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise; or, The Dash for Dixie
                  8
                  The matron'll settle with ye good and plenty whin she gits toime!
                  The Lilac Lady
                  9
                  De 'h way he lash nigger whin e' don do jist so!
                  Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
                  10
                  The desultory crackling of the whin-pods in the afternoon sun usurped the ear.
                  Essays of Travel
                  11
                  And I can find out whin he will be here again.
                  At the Foot of the Rainbow
                  12
                  And thin there's days whin the wind has to do, and the light.
                  At the Foot of the Rainbow
                  13
                  Give us that one about yoursilf whin ye was a schoolboy.
                  The Thorogood Family
                  14
                  The humble furze bush or whin was collected and ground down to shreds.
                  The Irish Times
                  15
                  Sea-cave and moss-hag, wood-shelter and whin-bush, he knows every hidie-hole for forty mile.
                  Patsy
                  16
                  Ef they do, I'll kill them meself whin they comes over th' side.
                  Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
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                  Translations for whin
                  Portuguese
                  tojo
                  Spanish
                  ulex
                  Whin through the time
                  Whin across language varieties
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