Flint

  1. Proper noun.  A city in Michigan.
  2. Proper noun.  An unincorporated community in Texas.
  3. Noun.  A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
  4. Noun.  A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
  5. Noun.  A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.