Their master gunner was also busy at his work; they could see his figure with the linstock in his hand, or could rather catch the gleam of the linstock itself, as he moved behind his gun ports.
Hairy-faced Dick understands his trade; He stand by the breech of a long carronade, The linstock glows in his bony hand, Waiting that grim old Skipper's command.
Sight o'er the trunnion-- Send home the rammer-- Linstockand hammer!
Hairy-faced Dick understands his trade; He stands by the breech of a long carronade, The linstock glows in his bony hand, Waiting that grim old skipper's command.
He fired again just in the nick of time, and the man who now held the linstock dropped it and stood gesticulating to his companions.
As he struggled to regain his balance, he knocked aside the body of the Commonwealth infantryman who lay sprawled across its barrel, the smoldering linstock still in his dead grasp.
Canninge ordered the demi-culverin shifted a few degrees to the left, then motioned for a linstock and lightly applied the burning end to the touch hole.
Later Winston remembered watching in paralyzed horror as the linstock clattered against the breech of the culverin, scattering sparks.
Not like today, when their gun crews clearly were Lisbon dockside rabble, private traders who'd earned passage out to the Indies on the easy claim they were gunners, half not knowing a linstock from a lamppost.
The quartermaster signaled the bosun, and a line of seamen along the port gunwales touched musket arrows to the lighted linstock and took aim.
His trembling hand had snatched the linstock from that of a wounded sailor and he was trying, with the feeble sight of his right eye, to discover to what point in the foe he had better send the missile.
His eye travelled along the tube;--the magician Botello stood on the broken wall at its side, and the linstock he held in his hand was descending to the vent.
There was much fear of that," said the master; "for my sailors had marked him at the linstock with no great love.
But as the first line of men broke into the courtyard, Brian fired the remaining three cannon as fast as he could touch linstock to powder.
Brian's linstock fell on a falcon, and the little gun barked a hail of bullets across the Scots; Turlough's gun followed suit, and the first lines of men went down in a struggling mass.
Well, we emptied a bucket of water over his linstock and priming, d'ye see, so maybe he did all he could.
In vain the men tugged and strained at their oars while the gunner worked like a maniac to relight his linstock and to replace his priming.
Already they could see the faces of the marines who sat in the stern, and the gleam of the lighted linstock which the gunner held in his hand.
At the same instant the connecting rope was severed, the foreyard creaked back into position again, and the bucketful of salt water soused down over the gunner and his gun, putting out his linstock and wetting his priming.
Only going to put a lighted linstock to the end of a train leading to a big powder-bag in the ammunition-wagon, sir.
Therefore in the twinkling of an eye, the Spaniards attacked and took the palisade, hurling down the bombardiers with linstock in hand, giving them no chance to fulfil their duties.
Pieces of artillery stood at the gates, guarded by bombardiers, linstock in hand.
Gil stood by the side of the piece, opposite to Mace, watching her face as she stood firm and unflinching; and as she lowered the linstock he inwardly cried, "Brave girl!
The linstock was again applied; there was the same tremendous roar; the great piece leaped back several feet, and a few seconds later, crash!
I am quite ready; raise your arm a little, Mace, and let the burning linstock fall softly on the touch-hole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linstock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
