Associations to the word «Whin»

Wiktionary

WHIN, noun. Gorse; furze.
WHIN, noun. The plant woad-waxen.
WHIN, noun. Whinstone.

Dictionary definition

WHIN, noun. Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.
WHIN, noun. Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental.
WHIN, noun. Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats