"gunflash" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "gun + flash",
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          "ref": "1947, As You Were, page 18",
          "text": "He picked them out, remembering how he had stared at them every day for a week, trying to pick up the Vichy gunflashes but seeing nothing but the bare heat-shimmering hills; remembering how in the night you could see the gunflashes ...",
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          "ref": "2014, Alexander Werth, Leningrad, 1943: Inside a City Under Siege, page 44",
          "text": "Then the German guns suddenly went off with one or two gunflashes faintly visible to the side of the smoke-screen. The Russians got ready to answer. Somewhere high up, a German shell whined, harmlessly, like a mosquito.",
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          "ref": "2017, Mark R. Sumner, Walk Like Leather",
          "text": "\"Williams thinks it's important. I've been watching those gunflashes out there. They've all been to the east or southeast. We've been thinking the war was out there...but I saw single gunflashes...four of them...about south southwest, just before daylight.\"",
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        "The flash of a (naval, artillery, tank or hand) gun firing."
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          "firing",
          "fire"
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  "word": "gunflash"
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