Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The piece of flint used to strike the igniting spark in a flintlock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of shaped flint fixed in the lock of a musket or pistol, before percussion-caps were used, to fire the charge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The piece of
flint or other suitable natural stone that is used in aflintlock weapon to generate aspark
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon
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Examples
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Smoke, gunflint, and minerals make up the aromatic profile of the 2002 Riesling Spätlese Graacher Domprobst A.P.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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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.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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Smoke, gunflint, and minerals make up the aromatic profile of the 2002 Riesling Spätlese Graacher Domprobst A.P.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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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.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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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.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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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.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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Smoke, gunflint, and minerals make up the aromatic profile of the 2002 Riesling Spätlese Graacher Domprobst A.P.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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Smoke, gunflint, and minerals make up the aromatic profile of the 2002 Riesling Spätlese Graacher Domprobst A.P.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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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.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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Smoke, gunflint, and minerals make up the aromatic profile of the 2002 Riesling Spätlese Graacher Domprobst A.P.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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