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    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...
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    Linstock is a village in the civil parish of Stanwix Rural, in the Carlisle District, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is a few miles away from the...
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    matchlock musket. To prevent dragging the match cord on the wet ground, a linstock, a forked wooden support inserted into the ground and used for holding...
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  • ring, found before 1824 (perhaps identical to a ring found in 1773 at Linstock castle in Carlisle), has a magical inscription of a similar type, ery.ri...
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    combustion of the propellant occurs), either with a slow match (matchlock), a linstock or a flash pan ignited by some type of pyrite- (wheellock) or flint-based...
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  • After the introduction of gunlocks, linstocks were retained, but only as a backup means of firing. The linstock slow match or the spark from the flintlock...
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  • Later the priming powder was ignited by a piece of slow match held in a linstock (a stick with a clamp at one end). About 1700, this was effected by means...
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    Trafalgar (1805). The earlier method of firing a cannon was to apply a linstock – a wooden staff holding a length of smoldering match at the end – to the...
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    Quaker gun near Centreville, Virginia, in March 1862, after the Confederate withdrawal; a man with a stick is pretending to "fire" it with a linstock...
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    After the introduction of gunlocks, linstocks were retained, but only as a backup means of firing. The linstock slow match, or the spark from the flintlock...
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  • Firing of a field gun of the early 17th century with a linstock...
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    were used to light fires and fire guns (see matchlock) and cannons (see linstock) and to detonate explosive devices such as dynamite sticks. Such matches...
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    on the left would then fire the gun by touching the touch hole with a linstock. Flintlock firing was not standardized in the French navy before the end...
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    Leasgill, Leece Legburthwaite, Lessonhall, Levens Lindal-in-Furness, Lindale, Linstock Little Asby, Little Bampton, Little Blencow, Little Broughton Little Clifton...
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    issued to the Swedish navy from the early 18th century until 1840. Some linstocks of the Renaissance and late medieval period had a matchlock pistol concealed...
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    "Kirkandrews Tower" Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Linstock Castle" Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Lowther Castle"...
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  • oldest known linstock in the excavation trench, which held the burning fuse used to ignite the artillery's powder charge. Charring on the linstock indicates...
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    with an armored man behind it holding a rudimentary linstock near the bottom (in this case the linstock would have held a red-hot wire, heated in a brazier...
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    Firing of a field gun of the early 17th century with a linstock...
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    includes the villages and hamlets of Brunstock, Houghton, High Crosby, Linstock, Low Crosby, Rickerby, Tarraby and parts of Harker and Whiteclosegate....
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    the township of Linstock. Nearby settlements include the commuter village of Houghton and the hamlets of Brunstock, Walby and Linstock. For transport there...
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  • Carlisle Catterlen Clifton Cockermouth Corby Dacre Dalston Dalton Drawdykes & Linstock Drumburgh Gleaston Greystoke Harbybrow Hayton Hazelslack Howgill Hutton in the Forest...
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    of the communicative systems of the American deaf. Silver Spring, MD: Linstock Press. Bellugi, U. and E. S. Klima 1975. Aspects of sign language and its...
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    Quaker gun near Centreville, Virginia, in March 1862, after the Confederate withdrawal; a man with a stick is pretending to "fire" it with a linstock...
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    (1866-) Scaleby All Saints (medieval-) Stanwix Cargo Etterby Houghton Linstock Rickerby Stainton Stanwix Tarraby Stanwix (renamed Stanwix Rural 1966)...
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  • Camerton, Castle Carrock, Drigg, Heversham, Kirkbampton, Langwathby, Linstock St Theobald: Great Musgrave St Thomas: Crosscrake St Thomas a Becket: Farlam...
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  • contains the villages of Houghton, Low Crosby, High Crosby, Brunstock, Linstock, Tarraby, and Rickerby, and the surrounding countryside. The oldest two...
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    the city of Carlisle, the commuter village of Houghton, the hamlets of Linstock, Whiteclosegate, Tarraby and Park Broom. For transport there is the A689...
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    Retrieved June 23, 2024. "John Burris". Ballotpedia. Retrieved June 16, 2024. Linstock, Gavin (November 3, 2010). "Arkansas GOP introduces new constitutional...
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    It is a few miles away from the city of Carlisle and near the hamlet of Linstock. It is on Willow Beck near the River Eden and is about half a mile away...
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