LINSTOCK

Definition: LINSTOCK

LINSTOCK

Noun

1. A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LINSTOCK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fuel	Brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Language		Translations for "LINSTOCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		фитильный пальник. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "LINSTOCK": linstocks. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "LINSTOCK" (pronounced 'Lin"stock'): Bedstock, Bergstock, Bitstock, gunstock, headstock, Penstock, rootstock, tailstock, Whipstock, Woolstock. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-k-l-n-o-s-t"
	-2 letters: clinks, clonks, colins, nicols, stinko, tocsin, tonics, tonsil.
	-3 letters: cions, clink, clits, clonk, clons, clots, coils, coins, colin, colts, conks, icons, ikons, kilns, kilos, kilts, kinos, knits, knots, licks, links, linos, lints, lions, locks, loins, lotic, nicks, nicol, nocks, noils, oinks, ontic, scion, sicko, skint, slick, slink, snick, sonic, stick, stink, stock.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-k-l-n-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: linstocks.
	+2 letters: flintlocks, interlocks, skeletonic.
	+3 letters: outslicking, stockpiling.
	+4 letters: blockbusting, bluestocking, locksmithing.
	+5 letters: anticlockwise, blockbustings, bluestockings, kleptomaniacs, laughingstock, locksmithings, lockstitching.
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