Flint

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.

II. Flint ·noun A piece of flint for striking fire;

— formerly much used, ·esp. in the hammers of gun locks.

III. Flint ·noun A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.

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