Whin
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /wɪn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Whin is a noun meaning Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
Meaning
Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
More Meanings
- The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
- Whinstone.
Example Sentences
And sometimes they clambered down […] and saw the whin bushes climb black the white hills beside them and far and away the blink of lights across the moors where folk lay happed and warm.
1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65, By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins, and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
Word Forms
- whins
Synonyms for whin
Depending on context, synonyms include gorse, greenweed, woodwaxen, woadwaxen, dyeweed, furze.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include furze, gorse, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen, dyeweed.
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