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  1. flints: Merriam-Webster
  2. flints: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Flints, flints: Vocabulary.com
  4. Flint's, Flints, flints: Wordnik
  5. flints: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. flints: Wiktionary
  7. flints: Dictionary.com
  8. flints: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. flints: Encyclopedia

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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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