flint

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flint noun /flɪnt/
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.	silex
A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.	pierre à briquet
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.	pierre à fusil

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flint noun {m} /flint/
	flint, flint glass

Flint properNoun
(Géographie) Ville de l’État du Michigan, aux États-Unis	Flint

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