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whimstone

whimstone is the alternative form of whinstone.

Meaning of whinstone

Noun

whinstone (usually uncountable, plural whinstones)

  1. (usually) A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle.
  2. (usually, quarrying industry) Any hard dark-coloured rock.
    • ‘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.’1847, Emily Brontë, chapter IV, in Wuthering Heights
    Synonyms:
    whin

Forms of whimstone

pluralwhimstones

Questions about whimstone

What is whimstone the alternative form of?
Whimstone is the alternative form of whinstone.

Words near whimstone in the dictionary

  1. whimsigoth
  2. whimsigothic
  3. whimsily
  4. whimsiness
  5. whimsome
  6. whimstone
  7. whimstones
  8. whimsy
  9. whimsy maxxing
  10. whimsy-maxx
  11. whimsy-maxxing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whimstone (page history and authors); whinstone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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