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linstock
[ lin-stok ]
noun
- a staff with one end forked to hold a match, formerly used in firing cannon.
linstock
/ ˈlɪnˌstɒk /
noun
- a long staff holding a lighted match, formerly used to fire a cannon
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Word History and Origins
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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.
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Through the palms he could barely discern the silhouettes of the gunners as they loitered alongside the heavy ordnance, holding lighted linstocks.
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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.
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He applied the flaming linstock and fired the piece.
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Why art thou idle? thou wert bred to the linstock, sirrah.
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