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noun wɪn(h)wɪn mass nounNorthern English Furze; gorse. Example sentencesExamples - A land where plastic shamrocks are rare, whin bushes are plentiful and the green isn't made in Taiwan.
- So she is understandably dismissive of the dismal gorse and whin on view outside the living room window of her Council house.
- Beyond that, weed draped on fence wire and whin bushes by the roadside, marked a Princess.
- Cassiopeia was over Cassidy's hanging hill, I looked and three whin bushes rode across The horizon - the Three Wise Kings.
Origin Late Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Swedish ven 'bent grass'. Rhymes agin, akin, begin, Berlin, bin, Boleyn, Bryn, chin, chin-chin, Corinne, din, fin, Finn, Flynn, gaijin, Glyn, grin, Gwyn, herein, Ho Chi Minh, in, inn, Jin, jinn, kin, Kweilin, linn, Lynn, mandolin, mandoline, Min, no-win, pin, Pinyin, quin, shin, sin, skin, spin, therein, thin, Tientsin, tin, Tonkin, Turin, twin, underpin, Vietminh, violin, wherein, whipper-in, win, within, Wynne, yin noun wɪn(h)wɪn mass nounBritish Hard, dark basaltic rock such as that of the Whin Sill in Northern England. Example sentencesExamples - Built from whinstone, with a slate roof, the pedimented front door is a particularly handsome feature.
- The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to Dunstanburgh Castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs.
- They are comprised primarily of a rock called whinstone, which is very prone to vertical weathering and faulting.
- The other, the Longhoughton quarry, is located in the contact between the Great limestone (country rock) and the whin sill intrusion.
Origin Middle English: of unknown origin. noun(h)win(h)wɪn Northern English Furze; gorse. Example sentencesExamples - Cassiopeia was over Cassidy's hanging hill, I looked and three whin bushes rode across The horizon - the Three Wise Kings.
- So she is understandably dismissive of the dismal gorse and whin on view outside the living room window of her Council house.
- A land where plastic shamrocks are rare, whin bushes are plentiful and the green isn't made in Taiwan.
- Beyond that, weed draped on fence wire and whin bushes by the roadside, marked a Princess.
Origin Late Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Swedish ven ‘bent grass’. noun(h)win(h)wɪn British Hard, dark basaltic rock such as that of the Whin Sill in Northern England. Example sentencesExamples - The other, the Longhoughton quarry, is located in the contact between the Great limestone (country rock) and the whin sill intrusion.
- They are comprised primarily of a rock called whinstone, which is very prone to vertical weathering and faulting.
- Built from whinstone, with a slate roof, the pedimented front door is a particularly handsome feature.
- The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to Dunstanburgh Castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs.
Origin Middle English: of unknown origin. |