English Dictionary

whinstone

名詞

不可算名詞 通常

A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle. / (quarrying industry) Any hard dark-coloured rock.

日本語の意味

ウィン（干し草用および冬越し用の飼料として牛の飼料にするために、ウィンを砕くのに使用される石） / 採石業において硬く、暗色の岩石を指す

Each autumn the farmer used the whinstone to crush whin into winter feed for his cattle.

毎年秋、農夫はゴースを砕いて牛の冬の飼料にするための石を使った。

意味（1）

A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle.

意味（2）

(quarrying industry) Any hard dark-coloured rock.

‘A rough fellow, rather, Mrs. Dean. Is not that his character?‘ ‘Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.’

whinstones （ plural ）