Definition & Meaning | English word FLINT

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Definitions of FLINT

1. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
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. A placename
6. (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
7. (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
8. A surname.

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