flint
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flint/flɪnt/
▶noun a hard grey rock consisting of nearly pure silica (chert), occurring chiefly as nodules in chalk.
■ a piece of flint shaped to form a primitive tool or weapon.
■ a piece of flint used with steel to produce an igniting spark.
– origin OE; rel. to MDu. vlint and Old High Ger. flins.
'flint' also found in these Oxford entries:
burin
- core
- Cro-Magnon
- eolith
- flint glass
- flintlock
- flinty
- fusil
- microlith
- silex
- silica
- silicon
- tinderbox
- Waterford glass
- wheel lock
