[f. prec. sb.] trans. a. To fit (a gun with a flint; to furnish or provide (a person) with a flint or flints. b. To pave (ground) with flints; in quot. fig.
1803. Wellington, in Gurw., Desp., II. 292. These parties will parade and be formed in the streets the troops occupy at two o’clock, and then be completed to thirty-six rounds and well flinted.
1816. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 146. The same gun all day, which was neither cleaned afresh nor even new flinted.
1834. Landor, Exam. Shaks., Wks. 1846, II. 276/1. ‘Thy mind,’ said he, ‘being unprepared for higher cogitations, and the groundwork and religious duty not being well rammer-beaten and flinted, I do pass over this supererogatory point, and inform thee rather, that bucks and swans and herons have something in their very names announcing them of knightly appertenance.’
1848. J. Grant, Adv. Aide-de-C., I. ix. 120. A pair of excellent pistols, newly oiled, flinted and loaded. Ibid., II. iv. 70. ‘Most carefully flinted and loaded, excellency,’ replied the Greek from the rear.
