Definitions for linstock

linstock lin·stock

Spelling: [lin-stok]
IPA: /ˈlɪnˌstɒk/

Linstock is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in linstock (ciklnost).

Definitions for linstock

noun

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

Origin of linstock

1565-75; earlier lyntstock Dutch lontstock match-stick, with lint replacing lont by association with the material commonly used as tinder

Examples for linstock

A large ferocious animal, known as the "linstock bull," was baited no less than three times.

Pop went the colonel's ready carbine, and the Malay fell over dead, and the linstock flew out of his hand.

linstock, lin′stok, n. a staff to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.

This was applying the linstock to the priming with a vengeance.

So, throwing away the linstock, he began to run; and the Spaniards came up with him and killed him.

They wheel that upon the approaching boat, and Independence holds the linstock over the fuse-hole.

It was the difference between a cannon lying quiet in its embrasure, and the same gun when touched by the linstock.

The first thing he perceived was the linstock cut in two by a pair of shears.

At the last moment one of the gunners ran back, linstock in hand, to give one more shot.

It was attached to a linstock (fig. 18), a forked stick long enough to keep the cannoneer out of the way of the recoil.

Word Value for linstock
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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