Linstocks is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 355 anagrams from letters in linstocks (ciklnosst).
1565-75; earlier lyntstock Dutch lontstock match-stick, with lint replacing lont by association with the material commonly used as tinder
Pop went the colonel's ready carbine, and the Malay fell over dead, and the linstock flew out of his hand.
A large ferocious animal, known as the "linstock bull," was baited no less than three times.
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.
So, throwing away the linstock, he began to run; and the Spaniards came up with him and killed him.
It was the difference between a cannon lying quiet in its embrasure, and the same gun when touched by the linstock.
It was attached to a linstock (fig. 18), a forked stick long enough to keep the cannoneer out of the way of the recoil.
This was applying the linstock to the priming with a vengeance.
linstock, lin′stok, n. a staff to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.
They wheel that upon the approaching boat, and Independence holds the linstock over the fuse-hole.