flint Definition
flint (flint)
noun
- a dark-colored variety of chert that produces sparks when struck with steel and that breaks into pieces with sharp cutting edges
- a piece of this stone, used to start a fire, for primitive tools, etc.
- a small piece of metal consisting of iron and misch metal, used to strike the spark in a cigarette lighter
- 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 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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