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Example sentences for: flint

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A fellow who “skinned his flint” was looked upon as being a parsimonious, penny-pinching, stingy cheapskate—a veritable skinflint.
skinflint In many parts of early America, necessities such as flint were scarce.
Faced with this problem, some gun toters would skin, or sharpen the flint with a knife, creating a bevel in the flint, which could then make full contact and generate an adequate shower of sparks.
USAT goes with the outbreak of a sympathy strike at a second Flint, Michigan GM plant.
Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.