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Flint

[ UK /flˈɪnt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫɪnt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
  2. a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

How To Use Flint In A Sentence

  • I used to muzzleload, had a TC Hawkin flintlock, as heavy as that barrel is it would take alot to burst it, dunno if "modern" muzzleloaders are as hefty or not, but I assume they are just for product liability reasons. Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
  • At the moment, it is thought either to be a Neolithic axe rough-out or the work of a modern flint knapper.
  • Like the ages of flint, bronze and iron these phases were not exclusive.
  • Over 120 pieces of flint waste show that Neanderthals had made butchery tools on site to carve up the mammoths.
  • The latter is set behind neat new brick walls inset with panels of Norfolk flint. Times, Sunday Times
  • The grave also contained offerings such as ochre and flint tools, axes, and seashells.
  • One of the oldest uses for praseodymium is in the manufacture of misch metal, a pyrophoric metal (a metal that gives sparks when struck) used to make lighter flints and tracer bullets.
  • a cold steel, Laredo bowie, a flint knapping kit with a large novaculite biface and a trained peregrine falcon If you were dropped out of a helicopter in the center of Alaska and could only bring three items besides clothing what would the
  • By the late 17th century devices were being developed to fire grenades from the muzzles of flintlock muskets.
  • His important poems were mostly published at this time, in 1650 and 1655, in the collection which he named 'Silex Scintillans' (The Flaming Flint), a title explained by the frontispiece, which represents a flinty heart glowing under the lightning stroke of God's call. A History of English Literature
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