whin

Etymology 1
From, from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, dialectal ), apparently from , from , , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Gorse; furze ( spp.).
 * 2) * 1790,, 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.
 * 1) The plant woad-waxen.
 * 1) The plant woad-waxen.

Noun

 * 1) Whinstone.