Definitions from Wiktionary (Flint)
▸ 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.
▸ noun: A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
▸ noun: A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
▸ noun: A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
▸ noun: (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
▸ noun: A placename
▸ noun: A city, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas, United States.
▸ noun: A town in Flintshire, Wales, by the estuary of the River Dee (OS grid ref SJ2472).
▸ noun: A surname.
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▸ 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.
▸ noun: A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
▸ noun: A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
▸ noun: A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
▸ noun: (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
▸ noun: A placename
▸ noun: A city, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas, United States.
▸ noun: A town in Flintshire, Wales, by the estuary of the River Dee (OS grid ref SJ2472).
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ Also see flint
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▸ Usage examples for flints
▸ Idioms related to flints
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing flints
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▸ Rhymes of flints
▸ Invented words related to flints