white flint
Britishnoun
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Mr. Davis said his farm has lost the King Philip corn that once grew there, but has kept its white flint line going.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Davis Farm in Stonington, Conn., at the state’s southeastern tip, still grows a white flint corn that the family obtained around 1654 from a local tribe.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Wrote Alan: “The common boulders that served as the basis for the White Flint name are actually white quartz. Geologists say there is no such thing as white flint rocks.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
With his arms wrapped about the little figure that a moment before had been so warlike and gay, Aladdin turned toward the heavens a face of white flint.
From Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris
The insulating power of white flint glass is much in excess of that of soft soda glass, which is a poor insulator, and of ordinary green bottle glass.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
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