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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Steel :: Steel (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
Pan :: Pan (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
Felsite :: Felsite (n.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz..
Screw :: Screw (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; 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..
Flint :: Flint (n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint..
Flint :: Flint (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks..
Flintwood :: Flintwood (n.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
Flintware :: Flintware (n.) A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies..
Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..
Flinty :: Flinty (superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart..
Calyon :: Calyon (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc..
Firelock :: Firelock (n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock..
Hornstone :: Hornstone (n.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert..
Sycoceric :: Sycite (n.) A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig..
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..
Give :: Give (n.) To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks..
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..
Pelter :: Pelter (n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint..
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