Usually means: Hard, sedimentary, quartz-rich rock.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flint, flint: Merriam-Webster
  2. Flint, flint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Flint, flint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Flint, flint: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flint, flint: Wordnik
  7. flint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Flint, flint: Wiktionary
  9. flint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flint: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flint, flint: Dictionary.com
  13. flint: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FLINT, Flint (G.I. Joe), Flint (Marvel Comics), Flint (automobile), Flint (band), Flint (comics), Flint (disambiguation), Flint (film), Flint (surname), Flint (tool), Flint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Flint: Rhymezone
  19. Flint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Flint: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. flint: FreeDictionary.org
  23. flint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Flint: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. flint: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flint: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. FLINT: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flint: Easton Bible
  2. Flint: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Flint: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flint, flint, flint: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Flint: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flint: Pottery Studio
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See flinting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.

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