flint

flint has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
• n.. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
• n.. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
• n.. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
• n.. a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
• n.. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
• a.. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"