- A
linstock (also
called a lintstock) is a
staff with a fork at one end to hold a
lighted slow match. The name was
adapted from the
Dutch lontstok, "match...
- ring,
found before 1824 (perhaps
identical to a ring
found in 1773 at
Linstock castle in Carlisle), has a
magical inscription of a
similar type, ery.ri...
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matchlock musket. To
prevent dragging the
match cord on the wet ground, a
linstock, a
forked wooden support inserted into the
ground and used for holding...
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Linstock is a
village in the
civil parish of
Stanwix Rural, in the
Carlisle District, in the
county of ****bria, England. It is a few
miles away from the...
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Trafalgar (1805). The
earlier method of
firing a
cannon was to
apply a
linstock – a
wooden staff holding a
length of
smoldering match at the end – to the...
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After the
introduction of gunlocks,
linstocks were retained, but only as a
backup means of firing. The
linstock slow
match or the
spark from the flintlock...
-
combustion of the
propellant occurs),
either with a slow
match (matchlock), a
linstock or a
flash pan
ignited by some type of pyrite- (wheellock) or flint-based...
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Firing of a
field gun of the
early 17th
century with a
linstock...
- were used to
light fires and fire guns (see matchlock) and
cannons (see
linstock) and to
detonate explosive devices such as
dynamite sticks. Such matches...
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Later the
priming powder was
ignited by a
piece of slow
match held in a
linstock (a
stick with a
clamp at one end).
About 1700, this was
effected by means...
