Maize or corn that is a hybrid where one parent species is flint and the other has a soft outer hull. / Clay that is hard rather than plastic but that lacks the conchoidal fracture pattern of flint.

A tool with a broad flat end that is used to rake out a furnace grate.

(Roman mythology) an ancient Italic Roman deity of Etruscan origin considered to be an underworld counterpart of Jupiter; literally “Little Jupiter”, “Anti-Jove”

simple past tense and past participle of sweeten up