0 used in some parts of northern England and Scotland to refer to gorse (= a wild bush with sharp thorns and small, yellow flowers), or to a gorse bush: --
Futile attempts were made to block the breach with clay, whin, straw, etc.
There are over 150 plant species including, marsh cinquefoil, marsh gentian, round-leaved sundew and petty whin.
Attempts were made to block the breach with clay, whin, straw, etc to no avail.
There were wash-outs, water in the shafts, uncertain gradients, excessive small faultings, whin intrusions, burnt coal—all in one colliery.
However, an 1884 book said the site was merely a rocky face, studded with blooming whins in summer, and a row of blasted ash-trees.
The eradication of bracken, whins or gorse growing on a pastoral farm at the commencement of a tenancy.
They cleared the whins off the mountain and drained the bogs.
The white creature disappeared into the whin bushes.
