Definition of "gunflint" []

• The piece of flint used to strike the igniting spark in a flintlock. (noun)

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• "Smoke, gunflint, and minerals make up the aromatic profile of the 2002 Riesling Spätlese Graacher Domprobst A.P."
• "The 1989 Meursault Les Perrières exhibits exceptional flavor: the telltale mineral, cold steel, gunflint sort of nose of a textbook Perrières; sensational fruit extraction; and a whoppingly long, crisp finish."
• "Excavations at the Lower Portage Camp have turned up a possible tent peg carbon-dated to around 1810, bone fragments with knife marks, several fire pits, and a gunflint that fits neatly into the lock of the model of military rifle carried by the explorers."