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flint
Noun
  • A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
  • A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
  • A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
Verb
  • To furnish or decorate an object with flint. transitive
Flint
Proper noun
  • A city in Michigan
  • An unincorporated community in Texas
  • A town in Flintshire, Wales, at the estuary of the River Dee