flinty

Modifies a noun

• soil: And when cleared of vegetation, some soil types, such as chalky or flinty soils, can also have a direct visual impact.
• stone: A55 also bad for flinty stones which can puncture radiators very easily.
• wine: Near Auxerre, Chablis is famed for its flinty, dry white wine.
• heart: Oh that I may believe this and feel the power of it upon my flinty heart!
• loam: The soil is flinty loam and the subsoil clay with flints, and the chief crops are wheat and beans.
• ledge: He hated the hard picking and prying and blasting into the flinty ledges, but the fever drove him on.

Modifying Another Word

• locally: Deep, well-drained fine loamy and sandy soils, locally flinty, over glaciofluvial drift.