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Definition of Jingals
1. jingal [n] - See also: jingal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jingals
Literary usage of Jingals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1904)
"Formerly the flash-pan was used, but with the introduction of percussion caps,
the jingals have been fitted with nipples. These weapons are claimed to have ..."
2. Pegu, Being a Narrative of Events During the Second Burmese War, from August by William Ferguson Beatson Laurie (1854)
"The ramparts are 18 feet high, and on them are mounted 16 guns and a number of
jingals. This fort is remarkable on account of its differing so much from the ..."
3. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1895)
"... the little line of boats flying the American flag reached a promontory, on
the slopes of which were seen hundreds of cannon and jingals. ..."
4. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1840)
"... then a couple of jingals ; then 100 musketeers; and then the Burmese ...
2 jingals, besides 15 men sent by the governor of ..."
5. Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the by Perceval Landon (1905)
"Another time there was a bridge to be built beyond the end of the plantation,
just within the furthest range of the jingals from the rock. ..."
6. Malay Sketches by Frank Athelstane Swettenham (1895)
"... the form of this ancient saw : " If you have no gold, it is well to sing
small ; if you have no pivot-guns (jingals), it is well to put a pleasant face ..."
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