Definitions for flints

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Spelling: [flint]

IPA: /flɪnt/

Flints is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in flints (filnst).

Definitions for flints

noun

1. a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
2. a piece of this, especially as used for striking fire.
3. a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck.
4. something very hard or unyielding.
5. a small piece of metal, usually an iron alloy, used to produce a spark to ignite the fuel in a cigarette lighter.
6. Austin, 1812–86, U.S. physician: founder of Bellevue and Buffalo medical colleges.
7. his son, Austin, 1836–1915, U.S. physiologist and physician.
8. a city in SE Michigan.
9. Flintshire.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with flint.

Origin of flints

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Middle Dutch vlint, Danish flint; cf. plinth

Examples for flints

It was as the steel of my determination striking upon the flint of hers.

Either way, a whistle, just a flint of music, rang out that Sunday.

The third eaglet was never found despite a search by the flint Creek volunteers and the landowner.

“If you are a waiter, you can make twice as much in Austin relative to flint,” remarked Moretti.

Red Morning had a club he had made, with a flint set into the side.

With a sharp piece of flint he cut the fur of the animal's back.

That side is volunteering extensively in his hometown of flint, and recently, pastoring Charity United Methodist Church.

Yet in all that time he only learned to grind his flint stones instead of chipping them.

Born in flint, Michigan, Bragman says he was a “fat gay Jewish kid… who grew up to be a Martian.”

I am the steel, d'ye see, which knocks the valour out of your flint.