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flint
1[flint]
noun
a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
a piece of this, especially as used for striking fire.
a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck.
something very hard or unyielding.
a small piece of metal, usually an iron alloy, used to produce a spark to ignite the fuel in a cigarette lighter.
verb (used with object)
to furnish with flint.
Flint
2[flint]
noun
Austin, 1812–86, U.S. physician: founder of Bellevue and Buffalo medical colleges.
his son Austin, 1836–1915, U.S. physiologist and physician.
a city in SE Michigan.
flint
1/ ڱɪԳ /
noun
an impure opaque microcrystalline greyish-black form of quartz that occurs in chalk. It produces sparks when struck with steel and is used in the manufacture of pottery, flint glass, and road-construction materials. Formula: SiO 2
any piece of flint, esp one used as a primitive tool or for striking fire
a small cylindrical piece of an iron alloy, used in cigarette lighters
Also called: flint glass. white flint.colourless glass other than plate glass
See optical flint
verb
(tr) to fit or provide with a flint
Flint
2/ ڱɪԳ /
noun
a town in NE Wales, in Flintshire, on the Dee estuary. Pop: 11 936 (2001)
a city in SE Michigan: closure of the car production plants led to a high level of unemployment. Pop: 120 292 (2003 est)
flint
A very hard, gray to black variety of chalcedony that makes sparks when it is struck with steel. It breaks with a conchoidal fracture.
The dark gray to black variety of chert.
Other Word Forms
- flintlike adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of flint1
Example Sentences
There, archaeologists found two pieces of flint encased in birch tar residue, indicating the flint pieces were once hafted to other objects.
Ladies all, but each with a natural flint that, with the proper friction, could set a poor sap’s life on fire.
You have to be particular about muzzle-loading a flintlock and making sure the flint is in place.
The ground is hard like flint and when the wind blows across the plains, dust covers the squatters and all that they carry.
And then he added, “I have a flint.”
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