单词 | linstock |
释义 | linstockn. Obsolete exc. Historical. A staff about three feet long, having a pointed foot to stick in the deck or ground, and a forked head to hold a lighted match. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > container or holder for tinder or matches tinder-box1530 firebox1555 tinder1570 linstock1575 funk horn1673 spunk-box1721 phosphorus box1792 light box1816 spunk-flask1835 match-bottle1839 matchbox1853 match-pot1856 match-safe1860 punk-box1862 match-stand1873 match holder1884 book1899 safety box1902 matchbook1937 1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 95 v And in his hand, a smoking lyntstock broght And so gaue fier. 1592 J. Stow Annales anno 1563 1116 A linestoke fell into a barrel of powlder, and set it on fire together with the vessell. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E4 Their master gunner..confronts me with his Linstock ready to giue fire. View more context for this quotation 1682 London Gaz. No. 1684/1 Then thirty Gunners with their Linstocks..followed by thirty Negroes..with their Brown-bills. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (1780) Lintstock. 1804 Naval Chron. 12 63 1 lent-stock; 12 handspikes. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. ix. 31 The gunner held his linstock yare. 1840 R. H. Barham Legend Hamilton Tighe in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 156 The linstock glows in his bony hand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1575 |
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