Linstock

Quick meaning: Linstock is a noun meaning (historical) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.

Meaning

(historical) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.

Example Sentences

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The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner / With linstock now the devilish cannon touches, [Alarum, and chambers go off] / And down goes all before them.

[…] now, sir, (as we were to ascend), their master gunner (a man of no mean skill and courage, you must think,) confronts me with his linstock ready to give fire;

The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.

Word Forms

• linstocks
• lintstock

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lintstock, matchlock, pointing-stock, tipstock, whipstick, canstick.

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