whin

Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).countableuncountable

• 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65, By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and

The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).countableuncountable

Whinstone.