Flint
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /flɪnt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flint is a noun meaning A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
Meaning
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
More Meanings
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A tailor's employee who is paid by the day.
- (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
- (uncountable) 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.
Example Sentences
He used flint to make a fire.
He used a flint to make a fire.
In a cornfield on one side flakings of flint are numerous.
The sun had warmed the air to a balmy 45 degrees and sent sparks flinting off the bleachy white snow.
Word Forms
- flints
- flinting
- flinted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include glassy, vitreous, knapped, knapping, firestone, quartz.
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