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lintstock

lintstock is the alternative form of linstock.

Meaning of linstock

Noun

linstock (plural linstocks)

  1. (historical) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.
    • […] now, sir, (as we were to ascend), their master gunner (a man of no mean skill and courage, you must think,) confronts me with his linstock ready to give fire;1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II...

Forms of lintstock

plurallintstocks

Questions about lintstock

What is lintstock the alternative form of?
Lintstock is the alternative form of linstock.

Words near lintstock in the dictionary

  1. Lintons
  2. lintopride
  3. lints
  4. lintseed
  5. lintseeds
  6. lintstock
  7. lintstocks
  8. Lintugop
  9. lintuzumab
  10. lintwhite
  11. lintwhites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lintstock (page history and authors); linstock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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