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▪ I. clint, n. Chiefly Sc. Obs. exc. dial.|klɪnt|
Also clynt, klynte.
[a. Da. and Sw. klint:—OSw. klinter, Icel. klettr, rock. Cf. clet.]
1. A hard or flinty rock; a hard rock projecting on the side of a hill or river, or in the bed of a stream; a part of a crag standing out between crevices or fissures. Used locally, and in Geol., to designate:
a. A crack or slit in rock, a grike.
b. esp. A hard bare eroded rock-surface, spec. one developed in limestone regions in the N.W. Pennines in Britain.
a1300Cursor M. 17590 (Cott.) Þir caitif Iuus sent into clinttes and into clous To seke iesu. a1400–50Alexander 4830 Ȝit fand he clouen þurȝe þe clynt twa crasid gatis. 1533Bellenden Livy (1822) Introd. 8 The passage and stremes..full of crag and clint. 1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves 88 Clints, crevices amongst bare limestone rocks. 1845Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Eng. VI. i. 95 Nibbling out..every patch..up to the very teeth of the hard and sturdy grey clints. 1882J. Lucas Studies Nidderdale 243 Clint,..crevices among bare limestone rocks.., so used in Wharfedale. 1925Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Jan. 50/2 The hill-top platforms with deeply eroded crevices called clints or grykes. 1932Ibid. 17 Mar. 191/3 The clints (tablelands of bare stone) are not safe playgrounds for children. 1952W. Moore Dict. Geogr. (ed. 2) 77 Grike or Clint, a hollow in the surface of the rock in a limestone region, formed when the limestone dissolves in rain water containing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. 1963D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation 402 Clint, a bare, level surface developed on horizontal beds of limestone. The vertical fissures formed by solution along the joints are termed grikes.
2. Curling. ‘A rough, coarse stone, always first thrown off..as being most likely to keep its place on the ice’ (Jam.).
1789D. Davidson Seasons 116 (Jam.) 'Gainst the herd [he] Dang frae his clint a flaw.
▪ II. † clint, clent, v. Obs. exc. dial.
By-form or deriv. form of clink, clinch, clench.
(Were it not for the mod. dial. use, we might suspect misprint of t for k in the quotations.)
1575Turberv. Falconrie 226 It shall not bee amysse, to clynte or nayle them faste together. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. iii. §28 The ‘Statute of Præmunire’..clinted [ed. (1845) ii. 296, clinched] the naile which now was driven in. 1881I. Wight Gloss., Clented, clenched; applied to horse-shoes. |