flint
/flɪnt/
noun
- 1
A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
- 2
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- 3
A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- 4
A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- 5
Anything figuratively hard.
verb
- 1
To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
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