flinty

Definition

Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.

Etymology

From flint + -y.

Example Sentences

• "It was late at night and frosty; high above them on the hills the cloppety clop, cloppety clop of a horse's hooves picking their way on the flinty stone track died away in the distance."
• "flinty rock"
• "flinty slate"