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

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Example Sentences

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jingal

After this he expectorates a number of glass marbles, and ends with a couple of solid iron jingal balls that he can scarce get out of his mouth.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens

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 Powell Millington

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 B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

The jingal was fired no more, the musketry had dropped, and the stillness remained perfectly unbroken.

From Jack Haydon's Quest by John Jellicoe

But with the pressure upon the trigger the barrel of the Chinese jingal deviated slightly in the same direction.

From An Iceland Fisherman by M. Jules Cambon

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