A piece of flint used as a tool by primitive human beings. 打火石原始人作为工具用的一块打火石
flint
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a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
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a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
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a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
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showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
<adj.all> his flinty gaze the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart
Flint \Flint\, n. [AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint; cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh. akin to Gr. ? brick. Cf. {Plinth}.] 1. (Min.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. ``A heart of flint.'' --Spenser.
{Flint age}. (Geol.) Same as {Stone age}, under {Stone}.
{Flint brick}, a fire made principially of powdered silex.
{Flint glass}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Flint implements} (Arch[ae]ol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones.
{Flint mill}. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. --Knight.
{Flint stone}, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint.
{Flint wall}, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry.
{Liquor of flints}, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash.
{To skin a flint}, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]
Cerne also has a nine-acre garden by the river, and is built around a splendid flint tithe barn. Check that you are allowed to keep dogs and cats.
Instead, there is corn for making brooms; corn for popping; South American flint corn for milling; multicolored ornamental corn for decorating; and an ancient strain of corn in which the kernels grow in individual green pods on the ears.
There are more than 450 archaeological monuments within the boundaries of the site and in the years 3000 BC to 1200 BC the area was filled with settlements, tombs, and sites where the flint industry thrived.