lintstock
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lintstock (plural lintstocks)
- (historical) Alternative 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, [1]
- The gunner, with his lintstock in hand, was preparing to set to work.
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 20, in Billy Budd[2], London: Constable & Co.:
- Guns and carriages, together with the long rammers and shorter lintstocks lodged in loops overhead—all these, as customary, were painted black […]
- 1892, Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke: A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty, translator not credited, London: William Heinemann, 1912, Chapter X, p. 214, [1]