Definition of flinted in English

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Noun Plural: flints
flint - a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
		silica, silicon dioxide, silicon oxide a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
		gunflint the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon
		firestone a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns
flint - a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
flint - a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
		Flint River

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flint (Noun)
A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
flint (Noun)
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
flint (Noun)
A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
flint (Verb)
To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

flint (n.)
A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
flint (n.)
A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
flint (n.)
Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.

flint
flint, n. a hard mineral, a variety of quartz, from which fire is readily struck with steel: anything proverbially hard.—adj. made of flint, hard.—n. Flint′-glass, a very fine and pure kind of glass, so called because originally made of calcined flints.—adjs. Flint′-heart, -ed (Shak.), having a hard heart.—v.t. Flint′ify, to turn to flint.—ns. Flint′iness; Flint′-lock, a gun-lock having a flint fixed in the hammer for striking fire and igniting the priming.—adj. Flint′y, consisting of or like flint: hard: cruel.—Flint implements, arrow, axe, and spear heads, &c. made by man before the use of metals, commonly found in prehistoric graves, &c. [A.S. flint; Dan. flint; Gr. plinthos, a brick.]

flint
The stone of a gun-lock, by which a spark was elicited for the discharge of the loaded piece.

flint
In the flint-lock musket, the stone which was fixed to the cock or gun-lock by which the sparks were elicited that discharged the piece.

Flint, or flintstone, is a kind of igneous rock, which means that it came from volcanic action inside the Earth. Flintstones often have a rough lumpy surface but when they are broken, they look like dull grease-coloured glass. It has been one of the most useful types of stone to humankind.

Flintstones were often used in prehistoric times to make stone tools. When flintstones are broken, they have a sharp edge which could be used as a knife, or a scraper.

When two flintstones are hit together, they can make a spark. For many centuries, flint was one of the main ways for people in many countries to make fire. People would carry a little box called a "tinder box" which had some flintstones and tinder. The tinder was used to catch the spark and start a fire. Tinder could be sawdust, cloth, grass or bark. Flints were used to make a spark to fire a gun. A gun that used flint was called a "flint-lock" gun.

Flintstones are used in some countries for building. In England the flintstones used for building were often "knapped" which means they were broken to show the inside. This made a nicer finish on the building that the dull knobbly stones.