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A form of linstock — A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.

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Meanings

nounlintstock (plural lintstocks)

plural lintstocks

  1. alternativehistoricalAlternative form of linstock.

    1892, Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke: A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty, translator not credited, London: William Heinemann, 1912, Chapter X, p. 214, https://archive.org/details/underyokeromance00vazorich The gunner, with his lintstock in hand, was preparing to set to work.

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    Guns and carriages, together with the long rammers and shorter lintstocks lodged in loops overhead—all these, as customary, were painted black […]

    1924, Herman Melville, chapter 20, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
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APA

lintstock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lintstock

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“lintstock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lintstock. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lintstock,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lintstock.

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