whin
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
whin
- Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
- 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vIo-AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA65&dq=%22Through+the+whins,+and+by+the+cairn%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f3eIUeKIOYydiAf_l4DoAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Through%20the%20whins%2C%20and%20by%20the%20cairn%22&f=false 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.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, A Scots Quair, 1995, Canongate Books, page 38 ↗,
- 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vIo-AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA65&dq=%22Through+the+whins,+and+by+the+cairn%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f3eIUeKIOYydiAf_l4DoAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Through%20the%20whins%2C%20and%20by%20the%20cairn%22&f=false page 65],
- The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
whin
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