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Definition of FLINT

Flint
Flint Flint, n. [AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint; cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh. akin to Gr. ? brick. Cf. Plinth.] 1. (Min.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. 2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks. 3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. ``A heart of flint.' --Spenser. Flint age. (Geol.) Same as Stone age, under Stone. Flint brick, a fire made principially of powdered silex. Flint glass. See in the Vocabulary. Flint implements (Arch[ae]ol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. Flint mill. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. --Knight. Flint stone, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint. Flint wall, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. Liquor of flints, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]

Meaning of FLINT from wikipedia

- Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk...
- Flint is the largest city in Genesee County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. Located along the Flint River 66 miles (106 km) northwest of...
- Keith Charles Flint (17 September 1969 – 4 March 2019) was an English singer, motorcyclist, dancer and a vocalist of the electronic dance act The Prodigy...
- up flint in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flint is a type of rock. Flint may also refer to: Flint, Georgia, an unincorporated community Flint, Indiana...
- Flint is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Austin Flint I (1812–1886), American physician Austin Flint II (1836–1915), American physician...
- Jake Flint (1985 – November 27, 2022) was an American Red Dirt country singer. Flint was raised in Holdenville, Oklahoma. His father, Douglas J. Flint, was...
- The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis from 2014 to 2019 which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated...
- Flint Hill can refer to: In the United States Flint Hill, Georgia, an unincorporated community Flint Hill, Missouri, a town Flint Hill, Ralls County,...
- Captain J. Flint is a fictional golden age pirate captain who features in a number of novels, television series, and films. The original character was...
- Flint mining is the process of extracting flint from underground. Flint mines can be as simple as a pit on the surface or an area of quarrying, or it...