Linstock

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A linstock (also called a lintstock) (adapted from the Dutch lontstok, "match stick") is a staff with a fork at one end to hold a lighted slow match, and a point at the other to stick in the ground. Linstocks were used for discharging cannons in the early days of artillery.

[edit] See also

• Touch hole

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.