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Meanings of flint in English
Synonyms
Examples for "flintstone"
Examples for "flintstone"
1
She handed him a flintstone, a small packet of tinder and a little cooking pot with a wire handle.
2
Over this flintstone every year the people come by thousands, and crawl on their naked knees or walk on their naked feet.
3
Her uncle's grey head on his pillow was like a flintstone in chalk under her look by light of dawn; the chin had dropped.
4
Imagine a petrified Jello mold made by Wilma Flintstone for a dinosaur.
5
I pedaled, just like Fred Flintstone in his Flintstone car pedaled.
A river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River.
Usage of flint in English
1
I have food, water, a flint, and the rest you asked for.
2
The Strongs find the flint on which the Geisners strike the steel.
3
Burins and specialized flint tools were difficult to make in any case.
4
He is one of the best workers of flint I've ever known.
5
Let us walk along the cliffs together and search for flint arrows.
6
Suddenly someone in the room struck a flint and lit a lantern.
7
Matches were unknown; a flint rock and a file provided the fire.
8
A large Camp to the north lives near a good flint mine.
9
The chandler had given them a flint striker to light the torches.
10
The eyes were the blue gray of the flint, kindly yet imperishable.
11
The men threw stones and spears with flint points at the animals.
12
She struck the flint and put a lighted match to the fire.
13
The average size of flint grains when the brick is carefully crushed.
14
The mountains are quite barren here; calcareous rock predominates, with some flint.
15
Well, I could always come up with some sort of flint scissors.
16
The spider was busily engaged making the flint rocks into arrow heads.
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Flint across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common