Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See whin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The needle furze. See under needle.

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  • noun The needle furze.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe

Etymologies

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petty +‎ whin

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