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Uncommonflint
The correct spelling is flint.
How to pronounce flint
/flɪnt/
nounIPA: /flɪnt/
Say it like: Fli-nt
The correct spelling is flint. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
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Meanings
noun
- 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 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.Anything figuratively hard.
verb
- 1.To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
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