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Flint
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.
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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.
Anything figuratively hard.
To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
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c. 995, Ælfric, https://archive.org/stream/grammatik00aelfuoftpage/n27/mode/2up ''Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice''
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bald (having a bald head)
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