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flinting

flinting is the present participle and gerund of flint.

Meaning of flint

Verb

flint (third-person singular simple present flints, present participle flinting, simple past and past participle flinted)

  1. (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
    • No schoolboys lingered round Bob Robertson's (yclept Roberson's) blacksmith's shop, for this sleepy day no lusty throat bellowed attention to the flaming tongues fanned from its bloodily blazing teeth; no luminous stars flinted from the clanking anvil.1907, Barbara Baynton, “Human Toll”, in Sally Krimmer, Alan Lawson, editors, Barbara Baynton: Bush Studies, Other Stories, Human Toll, Verse, Essays and Letters (Portable Australian Authors; UQP...

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Noun

flinting (plural flintings)

  1. The act of making a flint tool.

Forms of flinting

pluralflintings

Questions about flinting

What does flinting mean?
Flinting means the act of making a flint tool.
What is flinting the present participle and gerund of?
Flinting is the present participle and gerund of flint.
What part of speech is flinting?
Flinting is a noun.
What is the plural of flinting?
The plural of flinting is flintings.

Words near flinting in the dictionary

  1. flintifies
  2. flintify
  3. flintifying
  4. flintily
  5. flintiness
  6. flinting
  7. flintings
  8. Flintite
  9. flintknapper
  10. flintknappers
  11. flintknapping

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