This stone, or a fragment of it, with reference to its property of giving off sparks when struck with iron or steel. flint and steel: an apparatus…

A stone that can be used in striking fire. A flint (flint, n. 2), esp. the flint of a firearm. Now historical.

A stone or mineral that can be used for striking fire. Cf. pyrite, n. 1. Obsolete.

As the name of various instruments made of steel. A piece of steel shaped for the purpose of striking fire with a flint. †In a pistol or firelock…

A piece of iron or steel shaped for the purpose of striking fire with a flint. Now rare.

Also pyrite stone. = pyrites, n. 1. Obsolete.

an implement for striking a spark to light a fire.

(See quot. 1889.)

A fire steel for a tinder-box. Obsolete.

a piece of steel used for striking fire; = steel, n.1 8a.

= flint, n. 2 3.

In tindern iron: ? a steel used in striking the flint to light tinder.

A piece or specimen of marcasite (see sense A. 2), esp. as used to strike fire or in jewellery; an ornament made of marcasite. Also: a piece of…

A steel for striking light from a flint; a representation of this; esp. Heraldry, one of the ornaments used to form the collar of the order of the…

(Flint and) steel.

a flint used for striking fire.