[f. WHIN1 + -Y1.] Covered or abounding with whins or furze-bushes.

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1482–3.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 648. Circa manuram de le Whynnyclose.

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1607.  Markham, Cavel., VII. xxx. 49. Hay which growing in whinnie grounds is ful of sharp prickes and stumpes.

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1761.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, IV. xxxi. The Oxmoor … was a fine, large, whinny, undrained, unimproved common.

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1824.  Miss Ferrier, Inher., xliv. The whinny braes of his native land.

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1826.  Galt, Last of Lairds, xxxv. 320. I’ve had a notion., that there’s a mine o’ copper ore aneath the whinny-knowes.

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