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He had still the linstock of his gun in his own hand.

Then you take a linstock and - when you get the order- light the fuse.

Dregara reached forward and the linstock touched the firing hole.

That's his linstock - he must do thus to keep it alight.'

Jackson was holding a short rod which ended in a Y, a linstock, and Stafford had another.

A linstock (also called a lintstock) is a staff with a fork at one end to hold a lighted slow match.

It is a few miles away from the city of Carlisle and near the village of Linstock.

Dregara, who was clearly an intimate of Bautista's, stood holding a smoking linstock beside the loaded gun.

He promised to kill me himself if I did not personally apply the linstock to the next trial gun I had constructed.

The Cannoneers without linstock have squatted invisible, and left their cannon; which the Swiss seize.

Later the priming powder was ignited by a piece of slow match held in a linstock (a stick with a clamp at one end).

The seaman reached carefully into the bore with his linstock and warily held the glowing end of the slow match against the fuse.

These were used to light fires and fire guns (see matchlock) and cannons (see linstock).

All along the deck the gun-crews crouched motionless, the captain with the linstock in his hand, glaring along the barrel.

Instead the guns had flintlocks, though, if the flintlock failed, a linstock was suspended in a nearby tub half-filled with water.

For attractions there is Linstock Castle and Hadrian's Wall Path.

The Sergeant was holding a linstock to fire the cannon, but now dropped the burning match and fumbled to unsling the carbine from his shoulder.

The gun captain snapped back the priming cover, and we both ducked and covered our ears as the glowing linstock struck down into the powder.

The Frenchman sprang back and Sharpe skipped aside for he could see the gunner holding the linstock to the touch-hole.

Each gun captain would be holding his linstock, occasionally blowing on the slowmatch to ensure it was burning well, and waiting for the guns of Triana.

Plummer called to the Sergeant, who took a glowing linstock from a protective barrel, reached across the gun's high wheel and touched the fire to the reed.

Burtonsville, MD: Linstock, 1993.

And Alexander now reached the foredeck, snatched up the red-hot linstock, and took a mighty swing at the back of the man who had killed Bennett.

The powder in the touch hole was lit either with a slow match, a linstock or a type of Flintlock mechanism that was known as a gunlock.

LINSTOCK, staff to stick in the ground, with forked head to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.