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WEBSTER, in his Dictionary (9th edition, 1862), says in explaining this word, which is known all over England, that it means weeds, gorse, furze, waste growth, from the Welsh Chwyn. That it is “a provincial name given to basaltic rock, and applied by miners to any kind of dark coloured and hard unstratified rock which resists the pick.”
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JEREMIAH, J. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 5, 399–400 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005399e0
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