2. Noun. The act of making a flint tool. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flinting
1. flint [v] - See also: flint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flinting
Literary usage of Flinting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1826)
"Did tbey finish flinting them ?— No. How many ?—Five or six. What prevented their
finishing them?—One of the men said there were persons overlooking them, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1890)
"... long familiarity with this “flinting” has enabled local builders to inkt'y
the flints in patterns like ..."
3. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1903)
"Starvation, exhaustion, blows, flinting under intolerable burdens, groans of
despair, and untimely death, were their lot in time of peace. ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1906)
"... chapter on "The Pleasures of 'flinting'" is plements which have been found
are carefully figured. written with true archaeological enthusiasm. ..."
5. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1902)
"O'er Arthur's shoulder flew the flinting rock, But as it past a craggy corner
struck The shoulder's point, and his bright armour bruis'd, Which in his flesh ..."
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