whin whin /wɪn/

noun

1. Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)  ( whin , whinstone )
   any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
   
   
2. 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  ( dyer's greenweed , dyer's-broom , dyeweed , Genista tinctoria , greenweed , whin , woadwaxen , woodwaxen )
   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
   
   
3. Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe  ( furze , gorse , Irish gorse , Ulex europaeus , whin )
   very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe