Crossword-Solution: LINSTOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Linstock | n. | A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “LINSTOCK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient cannon-firing device | 1 answer |
| long staff holding a lighted match, formerly used to fire a cannon | 1 answer |
| MATCH stick | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LINSTOCK (5)
What is that in your hand? A crowbar? Give it me!” He had still the linstock of his gun in his own hand.
The offer likes not; and the nimble gunner With linstock now the devilish cannon touches, [_Alarum, and chambers go off._] And down goes all before them.
Stand to thy linstock, gunner; let thy cannon Play such a peal, as if a paynim foe Came stretch'd in turban'd ranks to storm the ramparts.
Not till four in the afternoon did Keith march; but beautifully then; and folded himself away,--rear-guard under Schmettau 'retreating checkerwise,' nothing but Tolpatcheries attempting on him,--westward, Budin-ward, without loss of a linstock, not to speak of guns.
Pop went the colonel's ready carbine, and the Malay fell over dead, and the linstock flew out of his hand.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1981).