flint
To furnish or decorate an object with flintTo furnish or decorate an object with flint.
» He struck a spark from the flint.
Er schlug einen Funken aus dem Feuerstein. — carlosalberto
Он высек искру из кремня. — carlosalberto
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1 sensesTo furnish or decorate an object with flint.
Examples
19 sentencesHe struck a spark from the flint.
ruОн высек искру из кремня. — carlosalberto
deEr schlug einen Funken aus dem Feuerstein. — carlosalberto
What's diamond is diamond, what's flint is flint.
The landscape was cold and sharp as flint.
With patience, you can even bore through flint.
Ziri struck the flint to ignite the tinder.
Origin
From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint,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.
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Forms
flints, flinting, flinted, flintedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.