cereal vs flint

cereal

noun
  • The grains of such a grass. 

  • A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains. 

  • Breakfast cereal. 

flint

noun
  • A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull. 

  • A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. 

  • A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air. 

  • A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. 

  • Anything figuratively hard. 

verb
  • To furnish or decorate an object with flint. 

How often have the words cereal and flint occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )