Clint
noun
a male given name, form of Clinton.
Clint
American
[klint]
/ klɪnt /
noun
clint
British
/ klɪnt /
noun
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a section of a limestone pavement separated from adjacent sections by solution fissures See grike
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any small surface exposure of hard or flinty rock, as on a hillside or in a stream bed
Etymology
Origin of clint
C12: from Danish and Swedish klint, from Old Swedish klinter, related to Icelandic klettr rock
Example Sentences
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Keaton's parents, Louise and Clint Slater, were sitting in the public gallery of the court as Aleksanders entered his plea.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Homeless encampments, piles of trash, vermin, and car break-ins have bedeviled the 4000 block of Babcock Avenue in Studio City since the property was abandoned, said neighbor Clint Ledsworth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Daily Star leads with a picture of cows running over dry grass - "forget Clint Eastwood and Spaghetti Westerns", it writes.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
About 30 miles from Clint McRae’s southeastern Montana ranch, a local utility company bought roughly 6,000 acres of cattle grazing land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Clint looks over at our mothers, who are still going on like they’ve known each other for years.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
It is half-way up a clint of high rocks overlooking Loch Macaterick, and the hillside is bosky all about with bushes, both birk and self-sown mountain ash.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Soon we left the strange, unsmiling face of Loch Macaterick behind, and took our way towards the rocky clint, up which we had to climb.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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