flint

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  1. noun A very hard, fine-grained quartz that sparks when struck with steel.
  2. noun A piece of flint used to produce a spark.
  3. noun A small solid cylinder of a spark-producing alloy, used in lighters to ignite the fuel.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.

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  1. from Middle English flint, from Anglo-Saxon flint, flint, and in general a rock, = Swedish flinta = Danish flint = Middle Low German vlins = Old High German flins, Middle High German vlins, German dial. flins, flint; perhaps = Gr. πλίνθος, a brick: see plinth. Perhaps ult. connected with flinder (Norwegian flinter, a fragment, etc.): see flinder. Hence Old French flin, a stone used, like emery, in polishing knives; and prob. Danish flint = Swedish flint (in comp.), German flinte (whence Bohemian and Polish flinta, Lettish plinte), a gun: see flint-lock.
 

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