Silex
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Flint. archaic, countable, uncountable
- 2 A vacuum coffee maker. dated
"The Navy uses several types of coffee makers – urns, silexes, and percolators. Each type requires special care in making good coffee."
- 3 a vacuum coffee maker wordnet
- 4 A finely ground relatively pure form of silicas used as a paint filler etc. countable, uncountable
"Every little cold gust that I observed in the Colorado country had this corkscrew character […] an auger, of diameter varying from an inch to a thousand feet, capable of altering its direction so as to bore curved holes, revolving with incalculable rapidity, and armed with a cutting edge of silex."
- 5 a pure form of finely ground silica wordnet
Example
More examples"Every little cold gust that I observed in the Colorado country had this corkscrew character […] an auger, of diameter varying from an inch to a thousand feet, capable of altering its direction so as to bore curved holes, revolving with incalculable rapidity, and armed with a cutting edge of silex."
Etymology
From Latin silex.
Brand name.
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