flint

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Synonyms: glint, faint, fling, feint, flirt, flit, lint, elint, flinn, flink, clint

Antonyms: glint, faint, fling, feint, flirt, flit, lint, elint, flinn, flink, clint

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|Q83087}} {{lb|en|uncountable<!--except for the "kinds of" plural-->}} A hard, fine-grained [[quartz]] that fractures [[conchoidal]]ly and [[generate]]s [[spark]]s when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
2. {{senseid|en|piece of Q83087}} A piece of flint, such as a [[gunflint]], used to produce a spark by striking it with a [[firestriker]].
3. {{senseid|en|piece of Q83087 or analogue thereof}} A small [[cylinder]] of some other material of the same [[function]] in a [[cigarette]] [[lighter]], etc.
4. {{senseid|en|Q3303407}} A [[variety]] of [[maize]]/[[corn]] with a [[hard]] outer [[hull]].
5. {{senseid|en|anything figuratively hard}} {{lb|en|figurative}} Anything figuratively hard.
6. {{lb|en|UK|slang|obsolete}} A [[tailor]]'s [[employee]] who is paid by the [[day]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To furnish or decorate an object with [[flint#Noun|flint]].

Proper noun

1. {{n-g|A [[placename]]}}:
2. {{surname|en}}.
3. {{given name|en|male}}

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