Forms: see WHIN1 and BUSH sb.1; also 6 wyn-, 7 wine-. A furze-bush.

1

1483.  Cath. Angl., 416/1. A Whyn buske … salivnca, saliuncula, paliurus.

2

1563.  Foxe, A. & M., 1728/1. He tost a faggot at his face … and set a wynbushe of thornes vnder his feete.

3

1644.  W. Cavendish (Dk. Newc.), Lett., Life (1886), 352. Through some fields of furze and whin bushes.

4

1721.  Ramsay, To the Whin-Bush Club, 19. To come beneath your Whin-Bush Shade.

5

1881.  J. Grant, Cameronians, I. iv. 60. Masses of whin-bush (or gorse as it is called in England).

6

1889.  Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, x. The gentle murmur of the breeze amongst the whin-bushes.

7