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    Clint
    noun
    a male given name, form of Clinton.
  • clint
    clint
    noun
    a section of a limestone pavement separated from adjacent sections by solution fissures See grike

Clint

American  
[klint] / klɪnt /

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Clinton.


clint British  
/ klɪnt /

noun

  1. a section of a limestone pavement separated from adjacent sections by solution fissures See grike

  2. any small surface exposure of hard or flinty rock, as on a hillside or in a stream bed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of clint

C12: from Danish and Swedish klint, from Old Swedish klinter, related to Icelandic klettr rock


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Clint, why did you come clean on camera?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Clint Johnson, the chief for the National Transportation Safety Board's Alaska region, said there had been two pilots and six passengers on board, CBS News, the BBC's US partner, reported.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Clint Reilly, a Bay Area milkman’s son who rose to manage the campaigns of California’s most influential political figures, has died at age 79.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

His hands stuffed into his jeans pockets, Clint stops just a few paces away from me and leans against the fence.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

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

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

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