A small piece of flint that is used to ignite the gunpowder in a flintlock gun.
Example sentencesExamples
There's a pub there, close both to the huge Neolithic mines of Grime's Graves and the Lingheath pits that supplied gunflints to army, navy and buccaneers, called The Flint Knappers.
Sancerre is different, too, in that it combines its fruit flavours with minerals, gunflint and chalk, enabling it to be drunk on its own or with food.
Eight gunflints were recovered from the site.
Definition of gunflint in US English:
gunflint
nounˈɡənflint
A small piece of flint that is used to ignite the gunpowder in a flintlock gun.
Example sentencesExamples
Sancerre is different, too, in that it combines its fruit flavours with minerals, gunflint and chalk, enabling it to be drunk on its own or with food.
There's a pub there, close both to the huge Neolithic mines of Grime's Graves and the Lingheath pits that supplied gunflints to army, navy and buccaneers, called The Flint Knappers.