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Definition of Gingalls
1. gingall [n] - See also: gingall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gingalls
Literary usage of Gingalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ti-ping Tien-kwoh: The History of the Ti-ping Revolution by Augustus F. Lindley (1866)
"Moving my guns well upon the right and out of the eccentric line of fire from
the heavy gingalls, I took up a position enfilading whole divisions of the ..."
2. Essays on the External Policy of India by John William Shaw Wyllie (1875)
"The yells and cries from the combatants and the explosion of gingalls and cannon
were so great that we could scarcely hear each other speak. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1868)
"... an explosion of gingalls drove us away. During the night, however, we effected
a mooring on the Yunnan side, and I and my Sikh were standing on the ..."
4. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years by Laurence Oliphant (1859)
"Above these, with their heads well under cover, they defiantly waved flags, and
managed, with their gingalls, to wound some of our men, as they dodged from ..."
5. The History of China by Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger (1898)
"The fire of the gingalls was promptly silenced and overcome by that of the guns,
... A feeble fire from gingalls was opened by the Chinese. ..."
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