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linstock

[ lin-stok ]

noun

  1. a staff with one end forked to hold a match, formerly used in firing cannon.


linstock

/ ˈlɪnˌstɒk /

noun

  1. a long staff holding a lighted match, formerly used to fire a cannon
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of linstock1

1565–75; earlier lyntstock < Dutch lontstock match-stick, with lint replacing lont by association with the material commonly used as tinder
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Word History and Origins

Origin of linstock1

C16: from Dutch lontstok, from lont match + stok stick
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Example Sentences

A few yards further off a coal fire is burning, at which the cannoneers are heating the ends of their long iron staves so as to use them as linstocks.

Through the palms he could barely discern the silhouettes of the gunners as they loitered alongside the heavy ordnance, holding lighted linstocks.

The deaf man maintained by his gauging-rod and linstock, which he pressed against the table, the freest intimacy with the whole club, and watched his laboring brother, to see how he sawed and balanced.

He applied the flaming linstock and fired the piece.

Why art thou idle? thou wert bred to the linstock, sirrah.

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