| 单词 | flint |
| 分类 | 翻译、意思、用法、释义、英译汉、汉译英、英汉双解词典 |
| 释义 | Related topics: Geologyflint /flɪnt/ noun 1. [uncountable]HEG a type of smooth hard stone that makes a small flame when you hit it with steel 燧石，火石2. [countable]DFU a piece of this stone or a small piece of metal that makes a small flame when you hit it with steel 打火石Examples from the Corpusflint• He had his great knife, a flint for striking fire, his bow, and a clutch of arrows.• It was built with local greenstone, flint and chalk, by the monks from Wilmington Priory.• Like the ages of flint, bronze and iron these phases were not exclusive.• In a cist at Brahunisary in the Kildalton area there was a skeleton and a large quantity of flint flakes and chips.• Pierry derives its name from a stratum of flint in the subsoil which reputedly gives its wine a marked flinty taste.• In Suffolk, most villas had footings of stone or flint, with timer-framed or clay lump walls.• Opposite were the elegant backs of Victorian houses, their grey bricks swelling into bow-windows, the roof-tiles glistening like wet flint.Origin flint Old Englishflint nounChinese makes a hard type Corpus stone smooth of that |
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