How to pronounce“flint”in English
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Definitions of “flint”
A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
“He used flint to make a fire.”
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
“He used a flint to make a fire.”
To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
“No schoolboys lingered round Bob Robertson's (yclept Roberson's) blacksmith's shop, for this sleepy day no lusty throat bellowed attention to the flaming tongues fanned from its bloodily blazing teeth; no luminous stars flinted from the clanking anvil.”