lintstock

English

lintstock (plural lintstocks)

(historical) Alternative form of linstock
- 1892, Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke: A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty, translator not credited, London: William Heinemann, 1912, Chapter X, p. 214, [1]
  The gunner, with his lintstock in hand, was preparing to set to work.
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 20, in Billy Budd‎^[2], London: Constable & Co.:
  Guns and carriages, together with the long rammers and shorter lintstocks lodged in loops overhead—all these, as customary, were painted black […]