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Flint

Matched in: Term Flint

Flint or pebble stone used in building walls etc

Matched in: Term Flint glass

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Matched in: Term Flint hearted

A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun to ignite the charge It was in common use before the introduction

Iron pyrites formerly used for striking fire also a flint

A lock for a gun or pistol having a flint fixed in the hammer which on striking the steel ignites the priming

A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely

Consisting of composed of abounding in or resembling flint as a flinty rock flinty ground a flinty heart

A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint to throw sparks into the pan in an early form of flintlock

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