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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 stick".[1] Linstocks were used for discharging cannons in the early days of artillery; the linstock allowed the gunner to stand farther from the cannon[2] as it was dangerous applying the lighted match to the touch hole at the breech of the gun: not only could the charge flash back, but the recoil of the cannon might send the carriage toward the gunner.
- ^ "Linstock Definition | Definition of Linstock at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 735.