Noun:

கற்பாறையாக,

flint's Usage Examples:

The finest pottery, often painted but all hand-made without the wheel, belongs to the prehistoric period; so also do the finest flint implements, which, in the delicacy and exactitude of their form and flaking, surpass all that is known from other countries.

Many indications of ice action are found in these islands; striated surfaces are to be seen on the cliffs in Eday and Westray, in Kirkwall Bay and on Stennie Hill in Eday; boulder clay, with marine shells, and with many boulders of rocks foreign to the islands (chalk, oolitic limestone, flint, 'c.

The sickle was of wood (92), with flints (91) inserted, apparently a copy of the ox-jaw and teeth.

The majority of the flint appears to be fairly homogenous in raw material characteristics.

In each province they had found the best springs, beds of clay, paint, soapstone, flinty rock, friable stone for sculpture and hard, tenacious stone for tools, and used ashes for salt.

Its walls of flint rubble survive in stately fragments, and enclose an area of 200 acres.

All textile work was done by hand; the only devices known were the bark peeler and beater, the shredder, the flint-knife, the spindle, the rope-twister, the bodkin, the warp-beam and the most primitive harness.

Hulme, however, who has carefully investigated the subject, is of opinion that flint-glass in its present form was introduced about 1730.

The church of St Mary exhibits Decorated and Perpendicular stone and flint work.

the hieroglyphs was done partly with copper and partly with flint scrapers (P.

They carried an India pattern flintlock musket with socket bayonet.

Synonyms:

flintstone, silica, firestone, gunflint, silicon dioxide, silicon oxide,

Antonyms:

soft-boiled, compassionate,