Noun:

கற்பாறையாக,

flints's Usage Examples:

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

Formerly flint and steel were everywhere employed for striking a light; and gun flints were required for fire-arms.

The Senonian series is represented by the White Limestone, a hardened chalk with flints, which is often glauconitic and conglomeratic at the base.

The traces of human occupation are pieces of charcoal, flints, moccasin tracks and a single skeleton embedded in stalagmite in one of the chasms, estimated, from the present rate of stalagmitic growth, to have lain where found for not more than five hundred years.

thick, and formed of a core of rough rubble cemented together with mortar (containing much coarse gravel) of extraordinary hardness and tenacity, and a facing for the most part of stone - Kentish rag, freestone or ironstone - but occasionally of flints; about 2 ft.

A special industry in the shaping of gun flints long existed at Brandon in Suffolk.

with rubble stones, flints, brickbats or similar material, thoroughly drained at bottom.

The implements of man are relatively more common, seventeen chipped flints having been found.

By his collection of flints Boucher de Perthes had been the first to attempt to establish the existence of man in remote ages; but it had been objected that if the flints were indeed the work of man, human remains would have been found in association with them.

Those of the first series are artistically chipped upon the two faces and the end, and are readily distinguishable from the flints of the preceding Mousterian epoch.

The succession of beds in descending order is as follows: - (1) Shingle consisting of pebbles of limestone, slate and other local rocks, with fragments of stalagmite and containing a few bones and worked flints.

Enormous numbers of flints and also less abundant fragments of chalk are found in glacial deposits bordering the Moray Firth.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

soft-boiled, compassionate,