Meaning of Whin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
   countable, uncountable
2. Whinstone.
3. The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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