whims
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From 2020 to 2024, there were no prosecutions at courts for the offence "burning whins in closed season", but the setting of gorse fires more generally can be prosecuted as arson.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2025
Entering the treacherous "loop" stretch of the old course, where the holes criss-cross among wiry gorse and whins, he played the next four holes in twelve shots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some love to mangle turf: I see Them drive their balls from sandy tee, And think their day's delight begins When they are up among the whins.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner
Standing one day on the golf-links, I was weary and ill at ease; And I baffled and foozled idly Over the whins and tees.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
You that made the heaven and the earth and all that in them is, can You no set fire to some wet whins, or change this stane into a mill-dam?”
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
