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flints

noun

Meaning

  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.
  6. To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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