flintn.
/flɪnt/, U.S. /flɪnt/ I. The stone.
1.
a. A kind of hard stone, most commonly of a steely gray colour, found in roundish nodules of varying size, usually covered with a white incrustation. In early and poetic use often put for hard stone in general.Chemically, it is one of the purest native forms of silica, and by modern mineralogists is classed among the chalcedonic varieties of that mineral.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > hard stone > flint
flintOE
flintstone1375
silexa1592
gold-flint1683
potstone1811
OE Crist I 6 Wel þe geriseð þæt þu heafod sie healle mærre, ond gesomnige side weallas fæste gefoge, flint unbræcne.
c1000 Ælfric Numbers xx. 11 He..sloh..þone flint, and þær fleow sona of þam flinte wæter.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 129 Þurh þisse tacne Moyses werp ut þet welle weter of þan herda flinte.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 64 And oute of þe flynte spronge þe flode þat folke & bestes dronke.
a1400–50 Alexander 4447 Þat modire ws cried Þat fourmed þe flode & þe flynt & þe faire lyndis.
1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xviii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. B2v The firmest flint doth in continuance weare.
1760 T. Warton Idler 16 Feb. 49 A Pillar of Flint in the Rocks of Hanga.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 28 Flint is silica in a state nearly approaching to purity.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha iv. 62 Arrow-heads of flint.
b. As a type of anything hard or unyielding.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [noun] > hard substance or thing > typically
steelc1275
flintc1330
diamondc1400
brassa1425
posta1450
iron1532
marble1586
pine knot1774
piecrust1869
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1452 Þe deuel dragouns hide Was hard so ani flint.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B6v Hart of flint would rew The vndeserued woes and sorrowes, which ye shew.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. x. 15 Throw my heart Against the flint and hardnesse of my fault. View more context for this quotation
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xxiii. 353 Callum, flint to other considerations, was penetrable to superstition. View more context for this quotation
1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xix. 57 He struck so on the flint of what firmness I owned.
2. figurative.1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. i. 34 His offers were as flints, out of which they drew fire.1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) vii. 422 My heart is all flint, but when.. struck sufficiently, it will then send forth holy fire.
a. This stone, or a fragment of it, with reference to its property of giving off sparks when struck with iron or steel. flint and steel: an apparatus consisting of a piece of each of these substances used for procuring fire by the ignition of tinder, touchwood, etc.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > flint or steel
flinta700
firestoneeOE
pyritesOE
steelc1220
fire ironc1300
pyrite stonec1475
fire striker1483
furisonc1540
fusil1580
fire steel1585
flintstone1585
tindern iron1586
marcasite1682
briquet1823
fleerish1825
strike-a-light1870
a700 Epinal Gloss. 805 Petrafocaria, flint.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 469 Petra focaria, fyrstan, flint.
c1330 Amis & Amil. 1321 Sir Amiloun, as fer of flint, With wrethe anon to him he wint.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cv As fyre that fleis fra the flynt.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D2v When the steele and the flint be knockde togither, a man may light his match by the sparkle.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 249 It lyes as coldly in him, as fire in a flint . View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 46 Sparks struck from a Flint and a Steel.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 187 Ugo found a flint, and the torch was lighted.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles ii. xxvi. 70 As from the flint the fire, Flash'd forth at once his generous ire.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 81 The flint and steel, which a French peasant carries for the service of his pipe.
b. A fragment of this stone used to kindle the powder in a flintlock n. Also, a piece of metal (usually an alloy of misch metal with a base metal such as iron) used to produce a spark for the ignition of the fuel in a cigarette-lighter.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > flint
firestoneeOE
stone1613
flint1660
gun flint1753
society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > flint or steel > specifically in a cigarette-lighter
flint1929
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xiv. 100 We..caus'd a piece of Steel to be made of the form and bigness of the Flint, in whose place we put it.
1679 Levinz in Tryals & Condemnation Jesuits 10 The Flint of the Pistol failed.
1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Aug. 401/2 The..gun had an old wore flint in it.
1808 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 49 Each soldier will have with him three good flints.
1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 555 Dogs blink their covey, flints withhold the spark.
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 30 In fixing the flint of Carbines..the flat side of it must be placed upwards or downwards.
1929 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 471 Extra flints. For all lighters using a round flint.
1944 Notes & Queries 30 Dec. 294/1 The flint used in petrol lighters is a cerium-iron alloy, and has very questionably taken over the name given..to lumps of silicon oxide found in chalk.
1971 Grattan's Catal. Autumn–Winter 1971–2 615 Ronson ‘Comet VC40’ Gas Lighter... Flick-top design for easy access to flints.
3. A nodule or pebble of flint. In early and poetic use often applied to any hard piece of stone.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun]
stonec888
honeeOE
flintc1300
rock1677
St. Stephen's loaf1694
dornick1840
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > concretionary or nodular > flint nodule
flintc1300
calionc1459
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2667 So that with alþer-lest dint Were al to-shiuered a flint.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xvii. 18 A ryuer ful of flynt and great stones.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads vi. 541 The flints he trod upon Sparkled with lustre of his arms.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 3 They shaued their heads with flints and other stones.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 276 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors They use in their buildings, the flints, which they find by the Sea-side.
1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 15 Those ancient Roads,..o'er whose broad Flints Such Crouds have roll'd.
1816 W. Smith Strata Identified 7 Knotty and irregular Flints.
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xviii. 340 Flints and other nodular concretions.
II. Transferred senses.
4. A flint-like substance.
a. (See quot. 1892).
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > projection on head > horn > core of horn
flint1712
slough1721
colk1781
core1842
horn-core1872
1712 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 102 They [horns]..have a Protuberance arising from it [sc. the Scull], and filling up their Capacity, if cavous, commonly call'd the Flint.
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Flint, the core of an animal's horn... The term is likewise applied to the hard excrescence formed on a cow's head where a horn has been knocked off.
b. (See quot. 1847.)
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1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Flints, refuse barley in making malt.
c. Short for flint-hide n. at Compounds 3.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > dried unsalted hide
flint1885
flint-hide1885
1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather i. i. 54 Dry flint is a thoroughly dry hide that has not been salted.
5. An avaricious person, a miser, skin-flint. rare.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > of the worst kind
Jew1508
hood-pick?a1513
miser?1577
share-penny1606
flay-flint1672
skinflint1699
flint1841
skin1900
tight-ass1969
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. vii. 118 The money which the old flint—rot him—first taught me to expect that I should share with her at his death.
6. slang. (See quots.)
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > disobedient person
disobedientiary1537
disobeisant1542
disobedient1548
inobedient1548
recusant1599
disobeyerc1600
flint1765
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee > who receives wages
statute labourer1509
wages-fellow1652
flint1765
wage-earner1885
wages-man1888
wage-worker1888
wage-winner1902
payroller1910
wage labourer1957
1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 Chron. 66/2 On suspicion of their being those, who, refusing to comply with the masters terms and the regulations of the magistrate, call themselves Flints, in contradistinction to those who submit, and are in derision stiled by the first Dungs.
1778 Tailors ii. v Shall the Flints, like them [Dungs], e'er sink to slaves?
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xiii. 320 To see..whether the heroes of the day are, in the heroic language of insurgent tailors, flints or dunghills.
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (at cited word) Flint, an operative who works for a ‘society’ master—full wages.
Phrases
P1.
as true as flint used to express firmness in allegiance.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [adjective] > firm or constant
wholea1375
constantc1425
feal1568
handfast1578
blue?1636
firm1705
as true as flint1847
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. xi. 191 As true as flint was Jacob Armitage.
P2.
to get (also wring) water from a flint used to express extreme difficulty in doing something.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > do something with great difficulty
to make (a) shift1538
to make pottage of a flintc1576
to get (also wring) water from a flint1597
to make a hard shift1639
1597 1st Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. i. 141 Hoping to wringe some water from a flinte.
1599 George a Greene sig. E4v Faith I see it is as hard to get water out of a flint, As to get him to haue a bout with me.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 85 They would, in a manner, make pottage of a flint.
P3.
to skin a flint a hyperbolical exemplification of avarice.
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1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon ii. xxxi Just as the toper squeezes the empty bottle and the miser skins the flint.
P4.
(to set one's face) like a flint firmly, steadfastly.
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the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [adverb]
anredlyOE
fastlyOE
steadfastly?c1225
stifflyc1290
stably1297
steadfasta1300
stoutly1303
steevely1340
sadlya1375
sturdilyc1374
firm1377
surelyc1380
like a flint1382
tough1398
firmlyc1425
unmovablyc1425
but variancec1430
sad?c1430
immovably1435
toughlyc1450
affirmlya1513
wishly1530
constantly1534
steadily1540
fall back (also flat), fall edge?1553
staidly1571
fixedly1605
indeclinably1624
undeclinably1662
unfalteringly1665
unswervingly1805
unwaveringly1830
indomitably1837
rockily1846
unbendingly1847
indivertibly1853
unshakeablya1864
undyingly1881
unshakenly1882
adamantly1897
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. iii. 9 Y ȝaue thi face as an adamaunt, and as a flynt.
1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 321 Set his face like a flint.
Compounds
C1.
a. Simple attributive or adj.Of flint.
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c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 Me sculde in þe ehtuþe dei þet knaue child embsniþen mid ane ulint sexe.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Flynt, or of flynte, siliceus.
1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 163 A Flint Weapon and divers other Antiquities.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iii. iii. 410 Flint arrows and other primitive weapons.
1884 Dawson in Leisure Hour Aug. 490/2 Flint knives were used for sacrificial and surgical purposes.
b. elliptical for flint-glass n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > other types of glass
mirror glass1440
Venice glass1527
green glass1559
bubble glass1591
hard glass1597
window glass1606
bottle glass1626
looking-glass plate1665
opal glass1668
flint-glass1683
broad-glass1686
jealous glass1703
plate glass1728
Newcastle glass1734
flint1755
German sheet glass1777
Réaumur's porcelain1777
cut glass1800
Vauxhall1830
muslin glass1837
Venetian glass1845
latticinio1855
quartz glass1861
muff glass1865
thallium glass1868
St. Gobain glass1870
frost blue1873
crackle-glass1875
opaline1875
crackle-ware1881
amberina1883
opal1885
Jena1892
Holophane1893
roughcast1893
soda glass1897
opalite1899
milchglas1907
pâte de verre1907
Pyrex1915
silica glass1916
soda-lime glass1917
Vita-glass1925
peach-blow1930
borosilicate glass1933
Vitrolite1937
twin plate1939
sintered glass1940
gold-film1954
Plyglass1956
pyroceram1957
float glass1959
solar glass1977
1755 Oppenheim's Patent Specif. No. 707 The compounds of the flint contain two parts of lead, one part sand, and one part of saltpetre or borax.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 211 French glass..is found to produce the greatest quantity of electricity next to English flint.
c. elliptical for flint corn (see Compounds 3).
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > maize > types of
flint corn1705
soft corn1751
flint1802
squaw corn1823
tassel-corn1883
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > maize > types of
green cornc1450
flint corn1705
flint1802
sweet corna1817
squaw corn1823
dent corn1853
tassel-corn1883
country gentleman1892
1802 J. Drayton View S.-Carolina 137 The flint is more hard and nourishing.
1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 63 I plant the white flint. It is rather on the gourd seed order.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 309/2 The ‘Flint’ varieties are most common east of Lake Erie and north of Maryland.
1909 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) 264 According as the seeds [of maize] are opaque or semi-transparent, the varieties are distinguished as ‘Dent’ or ‘Flint’.
1947 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden Feb. 17 There is as yet little exact evidence as to how completely the gene combinations introduced from the northern flints have been broken up in modern dent corns.
C2. General combinations.
a.
flint-fragment n.
flint-nodule n.
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a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 220 The Romans..were successful in employing..the flint nodules of Kent.
flint-rock n.
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1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 77 As honey from the flint-rock shed.
flint-tile n.
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1428 in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 6 Chalke, flint~tyles and estriche boarde.
b. Objective.
flint-chipper n.
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1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 208 Unfinished specimens suggest that variety was continually aimed at by the ‘flint chipper’.
flint digger n.
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1809 Sporting Mag. 33 263 A flint-digger on the new Brighton road.
flint-worker n.
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1876 D. Wilson Prehist. Man (ed. 3) iii. 79 The whole region..is rich in remains of the old flint-workers.
flint-using n.
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1894 Academy 18 Aug. 120/3 The old flint-using folk.
c. Instrumental.
flint-headed adj.
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1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. i. 2 Shadows of branching antlers and flint-headed arrows caused many a darkness in his path.
1884 Dawson in Leisure Hour Aug. 490/2 They used flint-headed arrows for shooting birds.
flint-wrapped adj.
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a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 12 I stood A verie Statua..Not Flint-wrapt Niobe, more stone did rise.
d. Parasynthetic and similative.† flint-edged adj. Obsolete† flint-grey adj. Obsolete† flint-hardy adv. Obsolete
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1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour iii. ii. 31 Lay your flint-edg'd weapon by.
flint-eyed adj.
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1898 Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 1/3 A tall, solemn, shy, flint-eyed young man.
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OE Riddle 3 19 Hwilum ic sceal ufan yþa wregan, streamas styrgan ond to staþe þywan flintgrægne flod.
1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 51 A still quiet challenge Fills her dark, her flint-grey eyes.
1951 S. Spender World within World 126 The sun-bathers [were] lying in profusion on the flint-grey grass.
flint-hard adj.
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1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. G 3 Heart more flint-hard then beating waues haue wrought On sea-washt rockes.
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1606 N. Baxter Man Created in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 238 The braine..Both maters, and the flint-hardie scull.
C3. Special combinations.† flint-heart adj. Obsolete = flint-hearted adj. † flint-moving adj. Obsolete that would move a heart of flint. † flint-wort n. Obsolete a name for aconite, suggested by Pliny's statement that it grows on bare rocks (nudis cautibus).
flint-coal n. (see quot.).
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > hard coal
hard coal1653
stone-coal1708
flint-coal1841
durain1919
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 427 Flint Coal a coal measure so called, partly from its hardness, and partly from reposing upon a siliceous rock.
flint-core n. (see quot. and core n.1 5).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > leavings after main part exhausted > after a process > after making flint tool or weapon
flint-core1865
1865 Athenæum 7 Jan. 23/2 Small arrow-heads and flint-cores, from which such articles had been flaked, were found.
flint corn n. the name of certain varieties of maize, esp. Zea mays var. indurata, having very hard kernels.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > maize > types of
flint corn1705
soft corn1751
flint1802
squaw corn1823
tassel-corn1883
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > maize > types of
green cornc1450
flint corn1705
flint1802
sweet corna1817
squaw corn1823
dent corn1853
tassel-corn1883
country gentleman1892
1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia ii. iv. 29 The one [grain] looks as smooth, and as full as the early ripe Corn, and this they call Flint-Corn.
1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 20 The best kinds of flint corn weigh 60 lbs. to the bushel.
1872 E. Eggleston End of World viii. 60 The relative merits of ‘gourd-seed’ and ‘flint’ corn.
1950 New Biol. 8 37 Flint corns (type of maize) have hard flinty kernels with a little soft starch inside.
flint-find n. a discovery of flint implements.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > archaeological expedition or excavation > find
coast-find1865
flint-find1865
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iii. 82 ‘Flint finds’..resembling in many respects these Danish ‘coast finds’, are not..unknown in this country.
flint-flake n. a ‘flake’ or chip of flint used in prehistoric times as a cutting instrument.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of
flintstonec1400
celt1748
fairy hammer1815
axe1851
flint-flake1851
stone-axe1864
flake-knife1865
scraper1865
thumb-flint1865
tool-stone1865
saddle quern1867
fabricator1872
grattoir1872
hammer-stone1872
tribrach1873
flake1875
hand-axe1878
pick1888
turtle-back1890
racloir1892
eolith1895
pebble chopper1895
palaeotalith1897
tranchet1899
point1901
pygmy flint1907
microlith1908
Gravette1911
keeled scraper1911
lissoir1911
coup de poing1912
end-scraper1915
burin1916
rostro-carinate1919
tortoise core1919
blade1921
axe-adze1925
petit tranchet1926
tournette1927
pebble tool1931
raclette1932
biface1934
cleaver1935
thumbnail scraper1937
microblade1959
linguate1966
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. i. vi. 120 Rude and unshapely fragments of flint known by the name of Flint Flakes.
1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. v. 155 The simplest flint-flake forms a capital knife.
flint-folk n. people who, in prehistoric times, used flint implements.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > person of specific prehistoric culture > collectively
flint-folk1874
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. ii. §88 Races of men, which (like the old ‘flint-folk’) had made but a very slight advance in the arts of life.
flint-gravel n. gravel containing flints.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > gravel or shingle > gravel > type of
flood gravelc1420
river gravel1600
blue metal1699
slither1811
flint-gravel1865
plateau gravel1872
duck-gravel1885
peastone1909
pea gravel1911
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times x. 327 All the flint gravels in the south-east of England have been produced by the destruction of chalk.
flint-gun n. a gun with a flintlock.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [noun] > type of firearm > by method of firing
hammer-gun1645
percussion1807
detonating gun1814
detonator1822
flintlock1833
flint-gun1837
needle-gun1850
pin-fire1867
rimfire1889
miquelet1926
1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1895) II. 133 Their flint guns were at fault, and missed fire.
1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 161 This inconvenience—with a flint gun—is generally to be remedied without firing off the piece.
flint-head n. an arrow-head made of flint.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > prehistoric arrow-head
elf-arrow1590
arrowhead?1661
fairy dart1782
fairy stone1791
flint-head1796
projectile point1847
leaf arrowhead1878
fairy arrow1903
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 151 The flint-heads of arrows made use of by the Caledonians.
1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 226 The Celts and flint-heads prove nothing.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > hard-heartedness > [adjective]
hard hearteOE
hateleOE
hard-heartedc1225
cruel1297
dure1412
flinty1536
heartless1556
flint-hearted1560
stone-hearted?1569
stony-hearted1569
iron-hearted1570
steel-hearted1571
unbowelled1592
blunt1594
flintful1596
flint-heart1596
brassy1600
unfeeling1600
cold-blooded1602
cold-hearteda1616
flinty-hearted1629
callous1647
unsympathizing1735
cool-hearted1748
pebble-hearted1816
unsympathetic1823
cold1849
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted
hard hearteOE
steelena1000
hardOE
hard-heartedc1225
stony?c1230
yhert1340
dure1412
hardedc1425
induratec1425
stonishc1450
hardenedc1480
steely1508
flinty1536
endured1540
stiff-stomached1540
heartless1556
indured1558
flint-hearted1560
iron1561
marble1565
stone-hearted?1569
stony-hearted1569
iron-hearted1570
steel-hearted1571
rocky?1578
brawned1582
flinted1582
padded1583
obdure?1590
brawny1596
flintful1596
flint-heart1596
steeled1600
cauterized1603
indurated1604
flinty-hearted1629
ahenean1630
dedolent1633
brawny-hearteda1639
hard-grained1643
callous1647
upsitten1682
seared1684
petrified1720
calloused1746
coreless1813
pebble-hearted1816
hard-shelled1848
hard-plucked1857
steel trap1921
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. B4v Make a flynt heart Sythian pytifull.
flint-hearted adj. hard-hearted.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > hard-heartedness > [adjective]
hard hearteOE
hateleOE
hard-heartedc1225
cruel1297
dure1412
flinty1536
heartless1556
flint-hearted1560
stone-hearted?1569
stony-hearted1569
iron-hearted1570
steel-hearted1571
unbowelled1592
blunt1594
flintful1596
flint-heart1596
brassy1600
unfeeling1600
cold-blooded1602
cold-hearteda1616
flinty-hearted1629
callous1647
unsympathizing1735
cool-hearted1748
pebble-hearted1816
unsympathetic1823
cold1849
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted
hard hearteOE
steelena1000
hardOE
hard-heartedc1225
stony?c1230
yhert1340
dure1412
hardedc1425
induratec1425
stonishc1450
hardenedc1480
steely1508
flinty1536
endured1540
stiff-stomached1540
heartless1556
indured1558
flint-hearted1560
iron1561
marble1565
stone-hearted?1569
stony-hearted1569
iron-hearted1570
steel-hearted1571
rocky?1578
brawned1582
flinted1582
padded1583
obdure?1590
brawny1596
flintful1596
flint-heart1596
steeled1600
cauterized1603
indurated1604
flinty-hearted1629
ahenean1630
dedolent1633
brawny-hearteda1639
hard-grained1643
callous1647
upsitten1682
seared1684
petrified1720
calloused1746
coreless1813
pebble-hearted1816
hard-shelled1848
hard-plucked1857
steel trap1921
1560 T. Becon Flower Godly Prayers Pref., in Wks. II. 166 b No man, excepte he be flint hearted, can rede the history..without most large teares.
1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iv. sig. K You proue vngratefull, Flinty-hearted Charaloys?
flint-hide n. (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > dried unsalted hide
flint1885
flint-hide1885
1885 A. Watt Art of Leather Manuf. iii. 30 Dried Hides..are sometimes called ‘flint’ hides, from their excessive hardness.
flint-knacker n. = flint-knapper n.
flint-knapper n. one who fashions flints to any desired shape.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with stone > [noun] > worker with specific type of stone
marbler1478
flint-knapper1879
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 325/2 In 1876 there were 21 flint knappers in Brandon.
flint-knapping n. fashioning flints (for gun-locks, etc.).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > processes in
fine boring1789
chambering1827
percussioning1846
coiling1862
reinforcing1868
actioning1871
blowing1881
tubage1882
flint-knapping1887
chase-hooping1888
zeroing1908
sighting-in1958
1887 Illustr. London News 15 Oct. 468 The..almost extinct trade of flint-knapping.
flint-man n. one of the ‘flint-folk’.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > person of specific prehistoric culture
flint-man1872
Cromerian1921
Siculan1928
Solutrian1944
Ahrensburgian1949
Ghassulian1952
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 100 We are dealing with people capable of history..not with pre-historic flint-men.
flint-mill n. (a) Pottery a mill in which calcined flints are ground to powder for mixing with clay to form slip for porcelain; (b) Mining ‘a mode formerly adopted for lighting mines, in which flints studded on the surface of a wheel were made to strike against a steel and give a quick succession of sparks to light the miner at his work’ (Knight).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > crushing or grinding > other crushing or grinding
flint-mill1757
society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > mechanical device
fire stickc1300
flint-mill1757
fire piston1846
gas poker1855
gas lighter1856
fire drill1861
fire-churn1863
lighter1875
hand drill1891
fire-plough1893
electric wand1898
wax jack1937
1757 Brindley in Smiles Engineers (1874) I. 146 A new flint mill [in the Potteries].
a1852 T. Moore Sylph's Ball viii. 29 Musical flint~mills—swiftly played By elfin hands—that..Gave out, at once, both light and sound.
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the mind > emotion > intense emotion > [adjective] > affecting intensely or deeply
visceral1575
heart-burning1590
heart-scalding1594
heart-piercing1598
flint-moving1600
near-touching1615
penetrativea1616
penetrating1632
heartfelt1712
1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. E3v And as I story my flint-mouing wrong, Weepe thou.
flint paper n. (see quot. 1962); also elliptical.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > coated papers
porcelain paper1829
wax-paper1844
silver paper1875
lead-paper1890
tar-paper1891
baryta paper1900
coated paper1902
flint paper1916
everdamp1922
silver-foil1944
1916 H. A. Maddox Paper x. 137 Flint papers and box enamels are burnished in the friction glazer.
1920 R. W. Sindall Paper Technol. (ed. 3) xviii. 295 Flint.—Papers, usually coated, to which an extra polish has been imparted by friction with a long flat stone moving quickly to and fro across the surface of the paper.
1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper 115/1 Flint papers, a base paper coated one side with a colour and afterwards hard burnished or flint glazed to produce a high gloss, water-proof surface.
1967 E. G. Loeber Suppl. Labarre's Dict. Paper 25 Flint, also called flint (glazed) paper.
1967 E. G. Loeber Suppl. Labarre's Dict. Paper 25 Flint paper,..an abrasive paper..coated with ground flint-stone.
flint-paring n. = flint-skinning n.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun]
fastship?c1225
scarcenessa1300
scarcity1340
niggardyc1390
nithingheada1400
scarcehead1420
nigonryc1430
niggardship?a1439
pinching1440
straitheadc1450
straitnessc1460
niggard cheap1463
niggardnessc1487
nigonshipa1500
niggardise1502
niggishness1519
niggardliness1556
parsimony1561
illiberality1581
nearness1584
tenacity1586
Euclionism1599
paring1607
servilitya1610
niggeralitya1612
scanting1625
scant-handednessa1627
closefistedness1631
niggardess1632
close-handedness1646
strait-handedness1649
penury1651
unbountifulness1660
parsimoniousness1671
penuriousness1672
stinginess1682
closeness1712
illiberalness1727
meanness1755
cheeseparing1834
scrimping1835
churlishness1846
screwing1848
skinflintism1853
screwiness1856
flint-paring1860
skinflintiness1861
scrimp1864
flint-skinning1873
penny-pinching1895
skimping1898
tight-fistedness1975
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. vi. 323 During this tedious flint-paring, Antwerp..was falling into the hands of Philip.
flint-pit n. a pit from which flint has been taken.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > [noun] > other materials
marl-pit1272
gravel pitc1440
flint-pit1891
1891 D. Wilson Right Hand 62 A number of flint-pits..near Brandon.
flint-rope n. the stem of the sponge Hyalonema Sieboldii (Cass.).
flint-skinning n. figurative the action of ‘skinning a flint’, parsimonious saving.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun]
fastship?c1225
scarcenessa1300
scarcity1340
niggardyc1390
nithingheada1400
scarcehead1420
nigonryc1430
niggardship?a1439
pinching1440
straitheadc1450
straitnessc1460
niggard cheap1463
niggardnessc1487
nigonshipa1500
niggardise1502
niggishness1519
niggardliness1556
parsimony1561
illiberality1581
nearness1584
tenacity1586
Euclionism1599
paring1607
servilitya1610
niggeralitya1612
scanting1625
scant-handednessa1627
closefistedness1631
niggardess1632
close-handedness1646
strait-handedness1649
penury1651
unbountifulness1660
parsimoniousness1671
penuriousness1672
stinginess1682
closeness1712
illiberalness1727
meanness1755
cheeseparing1834
scrimping1835
churlishness1846
screwing1848
skinflintism1853
screwiness1856
flint-paring1860
skinflintiness1861
scrimp1864
flint-skinning1873
penny-pinching1895
skimping1898
tight-fistedness1975
1873 M. E. Braddon Strangers & Pilgrims i. viii. 92 Her small economies, her domestic cheese-paring and flint~skinning.
flint-soot n. (see quot.).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > soot > specific
flint-soot1577
blacking1594
gas carbon1842
stokers1899
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 137 Take Flint soote, that is hard dryed vpon a post or roofe, and beate it into powder.
flint-sponge n. the sponge Hyalonema mirabilis ( Cent. Dict.).
flint-wall n. ‘a wall made of broken flints set in mortar, and with quoins of masonry’ (Knight).
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > wall > stone wall
stonewallc825
boulder-walls1728
flint-wall1728
rock wall1755
rock fence1838
stone fence1844
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Wall Flint, or Boulder-Walls, are frequently used in divers Parts for Fence-Walls.
1782 J. Scott Ep. 1 Garden 16 Where..rough flint-walls are deck'd with shells and ores.
flint-ware n. U.S. name for stoneware n.
flint-wheat n. (see quot.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of wheat grain or plant
spelta1000
farc1420
ador?1440
flaxen wheat?1523
Peak-wheat?1523
red wheat?1523
white wheat?1523
duck-bill wheat1553
zea1562
alica1565
buck1577
amelcorn1578
horse-flower1578
tiphe1578
pollard1580
rivet1580
Saracen's corn1585
French wheat1593
Lammas-wheat1594
starch corn1597
St. Peter's corn1597
frumenty1600
secourgeon1600
polwheat1601
duck-wheat1611
kidneys of wheat1611
ograve wheat1616
soft wheat1640
cone-wheat1677
Lammas1677
Poland wheat1686
Saracen corn1687
pole rivet1707
Smyrna wheat1735
hard wheat1757
hen corn1765
velvet wheat1771
white straw1771
nonpareil1805
thick-set wheat1808
cone1826
farro1828
Polish wheat1832
velvet-ear wheat1837
sarrasin1840
mummy wheat1842
snowdrop1844
Red Fife1857
flint-wheat1859
dinkel1866
thick-set1875
spring1884
macaroni wheat1901
einkorn1904
marquis1906
durum1908
emmer1908
hedgehog wheat1909
speltoid1939
1859 All Year Round 3 Dec. 126 Turkish flint-wheat is one of those recommended as ‘a hardy, full variety, with..a long, flinty, light-coloured berry’.
flintwood n. a name in New South Wales for Eucalyptus pilularis.
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1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales 135 Flintwood, Eucalyptus pilularis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > aconite or wolf's bane
monk's cowl1548
wolf's-bane1548
flint-wort1567
libardine1567
aconite1569
wolf's-wort1575
napellus1576
monkshood1578
napelo1580
helmet-flower1597
scorpion1601
napell1605
wolfwort1611
monk's-head1682
panther's bane1712
blue rocketa1825
bikh1830
friar's cap1830
fox-bane1840
Turk's cap1854
Adam and Eve1879
face-in-hood1886
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 87 A Goblet readie fillde With iuice of Flintwoort venemous.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
flintv.
/flɪnt/, U.S. /flɪnt/ transitive.
a. To fit (a gun) with a flint; to furnish or provide (a person) with a flint or flints.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > arm or equip [verb (transitive)] > provide with flints
flint1803
society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > produce or develop arms [verb (transitive)] > processes in gun-making
stock1539
ranforce1547
newel1611
rifle1619
fortify1627
screw1635
chamber1708
reborea1792
flint1803
restocking1805
vent1828
percussionize1832
ream1841
percussion1844
restock1844
retube1846
revent1864
reline1875
sleeve1976
1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 292 These parties will parade..and then be completed to thirty-six rounds and well flinted.
1816 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 146 The same gun..which was neither cleaned afresh nor even new flinted.
1848 J. Grant Adventures Aide-de-camp xxv Most carefully flinted and loaded.
b. To pave (ground) with flints; in quot. figurative.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > pave with specific material
causeya1552
flag1615
causeway1744
metal1806
blind1812
macadamize1823
slab1832
flint1834
pebble1835
asphalt1872
concrete1875
cube1887
cobble1888
block1891
wood-block1908
tarmacadam1910
tarviate1926
tarmac1966
1834 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. (1846) II. 276/1 The groundwork and religious duty not being well rammer-beaten and flinted.
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