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whinstone

/hwin-stohn, win-/US // ˈʰwɪnˌstoʊn, ˈwɪn- //UK // (ˈwɪnˌstəʊn) //

呜呜石,呜石,呜呼哀哉,呜呼声石

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Chiefly British. any of the dark-colored, fine-grained rocks, especially igneous rocks, as dolerite and basalt.

Examples

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

  • The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone—a sort of slag.

  • In a short time we arrived at a pretty large river, called Boki, which we forded; it ran smooth and clear over a bed of whinstone.

  • Fire flew from the smitten blue whinstone where the point, with all the weight of his young body behind it, impinged on the wall.

  • It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone.