Meanings of whinstone in English

Think what these black bare lumps of whinstone are, and what they do.

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Below this mass lies a pale red hardened sandstone, and beneath that a trap-like whinstone.

There is no lack of sandstone, slate and whinstone.

It is there traversed by a dike of whinstone, of which that range is wholly composed.

The hills, at the foot of which we are encamped, are composed of whinstone (basalt).

You see I know too much, and I haven't your whinstone nerve and total lack of imagination.'

In like manner granite is a composition which graduates into porphyry; but porphyry is only whinstone of a harder species.

The roads were excellent, and made upon the MacAdam principle, whinstone having been brought for the purpose from the distance of several miles.

We crossed much good whinstone land, and arrived at a small ridge where I ascended a hill consisting of a reddish granite or porphyry.

Nay, even the splendid whinstone crags on which it stands will be all quarried away to mend the roads of our urban and rural authorities.

Granite, coarse porphyry, freestone, and whinstone were frequently found on the same hill, and the beds of the streams were of every variety of pebble.

The best descendants of Alister were Kildee, Tiree, Whinstone, Prince Alexander, and Heather Prince.

-Our ratings in Whinstone are constrained by the application of our 2010 counterparty criteria.

-Following our analysis, we also have raised our ratings on Whinstone 2's class C notes.

Now I know that the Scotch have a saying, "That you cannot make broth out of whinstones" (which is their name for lava).