/flɪnt/
noun
A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.Anything figuratively hard.verb
To furnish or decorate an object with flint.