Definition of flint

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Flint (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks..

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Fusee :: Fusee (n.) A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.
Pan :: Pan (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
Pelter :: Pelter (n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint..
Calyon :: Calyon (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc..
Frizel :: Frizel (a.) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock..
Cherty :: Cherty (a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.
Firestone :: Firestone (n.) Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint..
Screw :: Screw (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
Flittermouse :: Flittermouse (n.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse..
Give :: Give (n.) To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks..
Gunflint :: Gunflint (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps..
Flint :: Flint (n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint..
Flintiness :: Flintiness (n.) The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..
Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..
Flintware :: Flintware (n.) A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
Felsite :: Felsite (n.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz..
Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..
Skinflint :: Skinflint (n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.
Basanite :: Basanite (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal..
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