pedernal

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_tok_; which, as a substantive, Perez explains by "pedernal, la sangria;" as a verb it signifies "to bleed, let blood."

Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. Cyrus Thomas 1867
Engastado en pedernal, &c. "False diamond set in flint! the caverns of the mine

Poems William Cullen Bryant 1836