flint

Meanings

Plural: flints

Noun

a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
Anything figuratively hard.

Adjective Satellite

showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
- "his flinty gaze"

Verb

To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.

Synonyms

Flint River, flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony

Scrabble Score: 8

flint is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
flint is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flint is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

flint is a valid Words With Friends word