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white flint

noun

  1. See flint
    another name for flint


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Example Sentences

On the whole the most satisfactory laboratory practice is to employ good white flint glass.

The largest and finest specimens are found in Denmark: one in an English collection being of beautiful white flint 13 in.

The white flint corn is the kind usually chosen for hommony; although any kind, possessing the requisite solidity, will do.

Take the trouble to get meal water-ground, from white flint corn, and fresh from the mill.

The arrow was in her throat; it was of white flint, and had evidently been sent from an Indian bow.

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