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flint

noun / verb

Meaning

  1. nounA 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.

    Example: He used flint to make a fire.

  2. verbTo furnish or decorate an object with flint.
  3. nounA piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.

    Example: He used a flint to make a fire.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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