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Flint   /flɪnt/   Listen
Flint

noun
1.
A hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony.
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.  Synonym: Flint River.
3.
A city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing.
adjective
1.
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.  Synonyms: flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony.  "The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"



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"Flint" Quotes from Famous Books



... Starratt on that first night had been insignificant in themselves. Why was it ridiculous for a butcher to want an eight-hour day? Why should one have the firm's interest at heart? And yet the sparks from such verbal flint stones had kindled a revolt that had wrecked Fred ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... put a tinder-box, flint and steel, and a couple of candles into the basket. After feeling his way on for some distance, he stopped and lighted ...
— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston
... five or six articles which appeared to be made of tin from the noise they made in falling, the captain succeeded in getting hold of another pipe and the tinder-box, for in those days flint and steel were the implements generally used in procuring a light. With much trouble he ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne
... being once upon a time ten miles from a store and one mile from a neighbor; the fire had gone out in the night, and the last match failed to blaze. We had no flint and steel. We were neither Indians nor Boy Scouts, and we did not know how to make a fire by twirling a stick. There was nothing to do but to trudge off through the snow to the neighbor a mile away and beg some matches. Then was the time when we appreciated the ...
— Makers of Many Things • Eva March Tappan
... phizzes, with mask sanctimonious, [3] Their rigs prove to judge that their phiz is erroneous. [4] Twig lank-jaws, the miser, that skin-flint old elf, From his long meagre phiz, who'd think he'd the pelf. Tol ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer


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