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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LINSTOCK (adapted from the Dutch lontstok, i.e. " match-stick," from lont, a match, stok, a stick; the word is sometimes erroneously spelled " lintstock " from a supposed derivation from "
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lint " in the sense of
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tinder) , a
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kind of
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torch made of a stout stick a yard in length, with a
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fork at one end to hold a lighted match, and a point at the other to stick in the ground . " Linstocks " were used for discharging
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cannon in the
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early days of
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artillery .

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