linstock
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of linstock
1565–75; earlier lyntstock < Dutch lontstock match-stick, with lint replacing lont by association with the material commonly used as tinder
Example Sentences
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Canninge ordered the demi-culverin shifted a few degrees to the left, then motioned for a linstock and lightly applied the burning end to the touch hole.
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
This was applying the linstock to the priming with a vengeance.
From Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by Sleeper, John Sherburne
At the last moment one of the gunners ran back, linstock in hand, to give one more shot.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
A match-cord to fire great guns—a match for a linstock.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
It contains engravings showing the mode of pike exercise and the method of drill adopted for the management of the musket with rest and linstock as then used.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.
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