gunflint

English Thesaurus

1. the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	flint,
definition	:	a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony (noun.substance)

part meronym	:	flintlock,
definition	:	an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge (noun.artifact)