Device for holding a slow match in early artillery
For the village in Cumbria, see Linstock, Cumbria.
A linstockFiring of a field gun of the early 17th century with a linstock
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.
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^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Linstock" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 735.
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