flint
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6.1
- noun
- /flɪnt/
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pedernal
- My hand, blindly searching, struck the flint box and knocked it to the floor with a soft thump.
- flint blade
- flint tools
- flint knapping
We also have tomb paintings that show how these are being made with a drill that you rotate around and so with a Flint drill bit and stuff like that.
- We also have tomb paintings that show how these are being made with a drill that you rotate around and so with a Flint drill bit and stuff like that.
- Now, I'm not necessarily saying that's connected to who built this place, but there are broken grinding stones all over it and broken arrowheads, broken Flint shards.
- Can surveil and then withdraw that two at a smartphone, say, is as basic as a Flint arrow hood Arrowhead.
Examples
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Silas struck fire from flint and steel into his bowl, blew on the sparks until they caught.
Fiction book (1994) -
The line and hooks would allow him to fish, and the flint would give him a fire.
Fiction book (1993) -
There is a little flint stick and a surface to strike it on.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's a tough stone, flint.
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It takes more than one flint to start a fire.
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In one of her desk drawers, she kept candles and flint for just such an emergency.
Fiction book (1990) -
The ground here was scattered with flint that glinted in the early morning sunlight.
Academic text (1996) -
It's likely that worshippers worked the flint within the sacred precincts of the site.
Academic text (2008) -
There were also weapons, mostly flint, jade, and copper axes, some of which were covered in gold foil.
Academic text (2011) -
After sparking campfire tinder with flint and steel, Ian Hines blows the flame bigger.
Synonyms
976
1.0
A hard natural rock used for building or a small piece of it
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7.2
A hard rock used to make tools, build walls, or start fires
A small piece of flint used to make sparks to light a fire
A small piece of flint that makes a spark to light the powder in a flintlock gun
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A type of corn with hard outer kernels and a soft inside used for food or decoration
A river in western Georgia that flows south to the Florida border and joins the Chattahoochee to form the Apalachicola
- Specialized
A type of glass that bends light strongly and separates colors in lenses and prisms
How Hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flint comes from an old English word for a hard, sharp stone that makes sparks when you hit it. People used flint to start fires, so the name now means a stone that can produce sparks and help make fire.