thumb-flintn.
A simple kind of prehistoric flint implement; = scraper n. 4e.
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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
1865 W. Greenwell in Archæol. Jrnl. 22 101 Arrow~heads..and the so-called ‘thumb-flints’. Note. The commonest type of the ‘thumb-flint’ is the round one..; an oval form is also frequent.
1896 Spurrell in Archæol. Jrnl. 53 46 Thumb-flints, or slicking-knives.
1900 Archæol. Æliana XXII. 83 A ‘thumbflint’ or ‘scraper’ and also a large rough flint core were found by a tenant of one of the glebe farms.
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