Flinty Definition

Flinty Sentence Examples

• 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.

• For the latter purpose the hard, somewhat flinty grains are preferable, and they are prepared by grinding off the outer cuticle which forms " pot barley."

• The chief crops of the farmer are wheat (which from its flinty hardness and full kernel is the specialty of the Canadian north-west), oats, barley and pease.

• Rather, there was a flinty, somewhat austere structure giving support and contrast to rich, unctuous fruit.

• The terroir imparts a flinty minerality to the wine, while the grapes add flavors of baked pears and figs.