flint

IPA: fɫˈɪnt

A 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.
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
(figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
A placename
A city, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States.
An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas, United States.
A town in Flintshire, Wales, by the estuary of the River Dee (OS grid ref SJ2472).
A surname.

Examples of "flint" in Sentences

The muskets of the day were the heavy weapons known as flint-locks.
I saw on an episode of Danial Boone that he called his flint lock "Tit Licker"!
Worst line: “Here are me, Brian, Tom, Jim and Gregg outside our house in flint Michigan.”
When Croder and I made contact with each other we both had to keep our cool: we shared what some people called a flint -- and -- tinder complex.
The benifit of the flint is that it will throw a shower of sparks even when it is soaking wet, and for the little bit of room it takes up, there's no sense in leaving it.
Yes | No | Report from buckshot89 wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago oh yeah. most of my guns have names. you have to take care of them like a child. most of my reenacting buddies have named their flint lockes based on their style. germanic: gretchin, and i have the oldest gun in the group and everyone referes to her as old dirty bas%$#$. quite an endearing name.
The Jews seem to have performed the rite of circumcision with flint implements, for we read in Exodus that Zipporah, the wife of Moses, took a sharp stone for that purpose; and the phrase translated "sharp knives" in Joshua v. 2 -- "At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time" -- should be translated, as in the marginal reference, _knives of flint_.