Meaning of flint | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   countable, uncountable
2. stone (hard earthen substance that can form large rocks)
3. A placename:
4. A number of places in the United States:
5. An unincorporated community in Mitchell County, Georgia, named after the Flint River.
6. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
   countable, uncountable
7. flint (small cylinder used to produce a spark in a lighter, etc.)
8. A township in Pike County, Illinois.
9. hailstone (single ball of hail, or solid precipitation)
10. A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
    countable, uncountable
11. An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
12. crack (potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine)
13. A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
    countable, uncountable
14. A former unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky.
15. pumice
16. Anything figuratively hard.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
17. A city, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan.
18. A township in Genesee County, Michigan, adjacent to the city.
19. An unincorporated community in Sharon Township, Franklin County, Ohio.
20. An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.
21. An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia.
22. A town and community with a town council in Flintshire, Wales, by the estuary of the River Dee (OS grid ref SJ2472).
23. A surname.

Equivalents

Examples

“He used flint to make a fire.”

“Some of the enormous fragments of chalk which are interstratified with drift have not only layers of undisturbed flints, but also sandpipes in the middle of them, or cylindrical cavities filled with sand and gravel […]”

“In a cornfield on one side flakings of flint are numerous.”

“Each one claimed they were unjustly criticized, while claiming to have had Flint residents in mind.”

“Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action?”

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