very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental

Gorse; furze. See Furze.

Woad-waxed.

An early form of windlass for hoisting.

any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

Same as Whinstone.