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flint
/flɪnt/
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What does flint mean?
noun
- A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
More meanings (16)
noun
- A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- (figuratively) Anything figuratively hard.
- (obsolete, slang) A tailor's employee who is paid by the day.
verb
- To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Mitchell County, Georgia, named after the Flint River.
- A township in Pike County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
- A former unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky.
- A city, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan.
- A township in Genesee County, Michigan, adjacent to the city.
- An unincorporated community in Sharon Township, Franklin County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia.
- A town and community with a town council in Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, by the estuary of the River Dee (OS grid ref SJ2472).
- A surname.
- A male given name
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IPA pronunciation
/flɪnt/
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Love make his heart of flint that you shall love, And let your fervour like my master’s be Plac’d in contempt.
The fire to light the powder at the touch-hole was obtained by the use of a flint, a steel, and a tinder-box.
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The objects in the tomb with the dead were a clumsy earthenware vase, a few flint knives, and some shell necklace beads.
It was about ten in the morning, bright with a faint breeze, and we jogged leisurely southward in the valley of the Flint.
Sometimes this is a nail, sometimes a sharp and small piece of flint, so deeply penetrated as to have become quite buried.