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FLINT
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American, Australian, British, Christian, English, German
A Flint-stone; Stream; Place-name and Surname; Flint Stone Produces a Spark of Fire when Struck by Steel
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English and German
English and German : topographic name for someone who lived near a significant outcrop of flint, Old English, Low German flint, or a nickname for a hard-hearted or physically tough individual.Welsh : habitational name from Flint in Clwyd, which gave its name to the old county of Flintshire.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Flinte ‘shotgun’.
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English or Welsh
English or Welsh : habitational name from Little and Great Brickhill in Buckinghamshire or from Brickil in Flintshire, both probably named with Old Welsh brig ‘hilltop’ + Old English hyll ‘hill’.
Male
English
 English name derived from the Old English/Low German word, flint, FLINT means "stone splinter," originally used as a byname for someone "hard and tough as flint." Compare with another form of Flint.
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American, British, English, German
A Stream; A Flint-stone
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English
English : habitational name from Northop in Flintshire, named with Old English norð ‘north’ + hop ‘enclosure (in marsh or moor)’, ‘enclosed valley’.
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Native American
Flint.
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : probably a metathesized form of Hanmer, a habitational name from Hanmer in Flintshire.Swedish (Hamnér) : ornamental name from hamn ‘harbor’ + the surname suffix -ér, derived from the Latin adjectival ending -er(i)us.
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English
English : variant spelling of Flint.
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Native American
Nez Perce name meaning flint necklace.
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African, Arabic, Christian, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian
Rock that can Penetrate Metal; Precious Stone; Like a Flint Stone; A Message; Tidings; Thorn
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Stream. Place-name and surname. Flint stone produces a spark of fire when struck by steel.
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Hebrew
 Jewish ornamental name, FLINT means "shotgun." Compare with another form of Flint.
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Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
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One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints.
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The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
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The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
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A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
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Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
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A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
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Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.
n.
A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
superl.
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
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A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
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A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.
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A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
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A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone.
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That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
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A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
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Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.
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A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.
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A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.