jingal

American  

[jin-gawl] / ˈdʒɪn gɔl /

Or gingal,

noun

1. a large musket fired from a rest, often mounted on a carriage: formerly used in India, China, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of jingal

1810–20; < Hindi janjāl, variant of janjār

Example Sentences

And whenever Hersey needs an idea and can't find one�it happens all the time�he uses a big word instead: cangue, coffle, fulvous, hame, jingal, liripipe, m�tayer, panyar, purlin, psora, shroff, sycee.*

From Time Magazine Archive

It was that Chinese hip-shot which is practised with jingal and matchlock in the native hunting, and which these Northern Chinese can with difficulty unlearn.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)

The enemy kept up a continuous but ineffectual fire from the ridge, none of their jingal bullets falling anywhere near us.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund

But normally, in the latter stages of its flight, the jingal bullet lets you know it is coming.

From To Lhassa at Last by Millington, Powell

From near the top of this ridge a jingal soon began firing, and kept up an intermittent cannonade for several hours.

From To Lhassa at Last by Millington, Powell