Clint
Americannoun
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
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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
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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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