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flint Definition

flint (flint)

noun

  1. a dark-colored variety of chert that produces sparks when struck with steel and that breaks into pieces with sharp cutting edges
  2. a piece of this stone, used to start a fire, for primitive tools, etc.
  3. a small piece of metal consisting of iron and misch metal, used to strike the spark in a cigarette lighter
  4. anything extremely hard or firm like flint

Etymology: ME < OE, akin to Norw, stone splinter: see flinders

Flint Definition

Flint (flint)

city in SE Mich.: pop. 125,000

Etymology: after the nearby Flint River, so called from the flint stones in it

flint Synonyms

flint

n.

flint Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • knap: The material is almost entirely composed of knapped flint.
  • calcine: A small mound, 1 foot high and 14 feet in diameter containing one cremation with six calcined flints.
  • grind: These can be summarized as: 1. To grind flint.
  • strike: Apart from several struck flints, of possible Neolithic / Bronze Age date, the only material recorded was Romano-British.
  • mine: Between these facings was a rubble core of locally mined flint held together by mortar.
  • collect: This enabled us to collect the flint for the floor.

Preposition: with

dressing: Built of rubble stone and flint with stone dressings its roof was probably originally thatched and later leaded before being tiled.

Adjective modifier

  • fire-cracked: One concentration of fire-cracked flint suggests the possible location of a flint cairn.
  • Mesolithic: The earliest finds so far are Mesolithic flints, including fine tanged points of the later Mesolithic.
  • burnt: Even in the woods, Ju finds more flint and Roman pottery... One of the many burnt flints found across the survey area.
  • Paleolithic: The deposits themselves contain the earliest evidence of man in the area, in the form of Paleolithic flint implements.
  • Neolithic: The discovery of some fifty Neolithic flints in 1978 ( HER 4609 ) is the earliest recorded evidence for prehistoric human activity at Kenton.
  • prehistoric: This website provides access to a complete record of the region's archeology, from the smallest prehistoric flint to the largest medieval castle.

Present participle complement

knap: Flake tools came later, when people had become better at flint knapping ( the term used for making flint tools ).

Modifies a noun

  • arrowhead: Dawkins: Yes, I could easily imagine you could breed for skill in making flint arrowheads.
  • flake: In 2002 they found a flint flake - an undisputed artifact.
  • nodule: The Museum also possesses a flint miner's pick used for extracting flint nodules.
  • knapper: At the head of each arc sat the flint knappers.
  • scraper: This is a flint scraper, found at West Wittering.
  • debitage: Find no 4252, F39, C1150, gray flint debitage, 105 mm in size.

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