flint
flint / flint/ • n. a hard gray rock consisting of nearly pure chert, occurring chiefly as nodules in chalk. ∎ a piece of this stone, esp. as flaked or ground in ancient times to form a tool or weapon. ∎ a piece of flint used with steel to produce an igniting spark, e.g., in a flintlock gun, or (in modern use) a piece of an alloy used similarly, esp. in a cigarette lighter. ∎ used to express how hard and unyielding something or someone is: mean faces with eyes like flints.
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flint Granular variety of quartz (SiO2) of a fine crystalline structure. It is usually brown or dark grey, although the variety known as chert is a paler grey. It occurs in rounded nodules and is found in chalk or other sedimentary rocks containing calcium carbonate. Of great importance to early humans during the Stone Age, flint flakes when struck a glancing blow, leaving sharp edges appropriate for tools and weapons; two flints struck together produce a spark which can be used to make fire.
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Flint / flint/ an industrial city in southeastern Michigan, an auto industry center since the Buick Company was established there in 1903; pop. 124,943.
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flint OE. flint = MDu. vlint, rel. to OHG. (G. dial.) flins; perh. rel. to Gr. plinthos tile (see PLINTH).
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