flint
燧石,打火石,火石,燧石岩
Definitions
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- : a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
- : a piece of this, especially as used for striking fire.
- : a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck.
- : something very hard or unyielding.
- : a small piece of metal, usually an iron alloy, used to produce a spark to ignite the fuel in a cigarette lighter.
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- : to furnish with flint.
Examples
For more than an hour, they were all sitting there around the bedside — Flint, his wife and his sister-in-law.
Reyes, a Flint native who leads We the People Michigan, was expecting this.
Criminal charges and a class-action settlement may seem like the last chapter in Flint’s story, which has already begun to fade in public memory.
He admits that Flint used to be just “another town through which I’ve passed free of claim.”
We must remember that the Flint water crisis is not some relic of the past.
“If you are a waiter, you can make twice as much in Austin relative to Flint,” remarked Moretti.
That side is volunteering extensively in his hometown of Flint, and recently, pastoring Charity United Methodist Church.
The third eaglet was never found despite a search by the Flint Creek volunteers and the landowner.
Born in Flint, Michigan, Bragman says he was a “fat gay Jewish kid… who grew up to be a Martian.”
Either way, a whistle, just a flint of music, rang out that Sunday.
When the men worked on their flint points, Fleetfoot liked to play near the workshop.
While the men struck off large flint flakes, Fleetfoot played not far away.
Straightshaft let him try, but Fleetfoot was not strong enough to press off hard flint flakes.
Can you think of any way of removing little pieces of flint besides striking them off?
Scarface always used flakes of flint for the points of spears and javelins.