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The definition of a flint is a piece of chert, a form of quartz, that will spark when struck with steel and can be used to start a fire.
(noun)An example of a flint is a useful camping tool to start a campfire.
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See flint in Webster's New World College Dictionary
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
Origin: ME < OE, akin to Norw, stone splinter: see flinders
city in SE Mich.: pop. 125,000
Origin: after the nearby Flint River, so called from the flint stones in it
See flint in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A very hard, fine-grained quartz that sparks when struck with steel.
- a. A piece of flint used to produce a spark.b. A small solid cylinder of a spark-producing alloy, used in lighters to ignite the fuel.
- A piece of flint used as a tool by prehistoric humans.
- Something resembling flint in hardness: a jaw of flint.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old English
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A city of southeast-central Michigan north-northwest of Detroit. Founded on the site of a fur-trading post established in 1819, it became an automobile-manufacturing center in the early 1900s. Population: 117,000.
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