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| | FLINT - Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | {Flint implements} (Arch[ae]ol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. |
 | | (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. |
 | | {Flint wall}, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the fl surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. |
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