flint

See also: Flint

English

Etymology

From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Middle Dutch vlint, Old High German flins, Danish flint), from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)plei- (“to split”). More at split.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɪnt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

flint (plural flints)

  1. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
  2. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
  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.

Derived terms

Translations

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See also

Verb

flint (third-person singular simple present flints, present participle flinting, simple past and past participle flinted)

  1. (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

Further reading

  • “Flint” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • flint mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

Middle English

Noun

flint

  1. Alternative form of flynt
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