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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In archaeology, one of the fragments of flint from which, in prehistoric times, implements were made, or one of the chips broken off in shaping implements.
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And the sea flint-flake, black-backed in the regular blow,
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And the sea flint-flake, black-backed in the regular blow,
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866
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