The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flinty \Flint"y\, a. [Compar. Flintier; superl. Flintiest.] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
Flinty rock, or Flinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.
Usage examples of "flinty rock".
Silvermane was going down, step by step, with metallic clicks upon flinty rock.
This is a particularly significant name, for a touchstone is a hard, flinty rock upon which a soft metal like gold will leave a rubbed-off mark if drawn across it.
She loaded the coordinate into the suit guidance 'ware, then pushed her thumb into the flinty rock and scratched a line.
Half tinged gold in the fallow afternoon, clean flinty rock-cliffs fell steep and stark from the heights into the firth.
Outside, Beatrice heard the click-click-click of his iron staff upon the smooth and flinty rock floor.
He was tired now but she was exhausted, her moccasins cut to rags by the flinty rock and the scree slopes.
Nothing less than dynamite could have made an opening where the last of the rails touched the flinty rock.
Had we not been aloft in the branch of the sky-tall tree, I have no doubt but what I could have found a bit of flinty rock with a little searching, and could have honed my makeshift blade to a keen edge with some labor.