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bundook India.|ˈbʌnduːk| [Hind. bandūq, a. Pers. bundūq filbert nut, musket or cannon ball, firearm, ad. Gr. Ποντικόν (sc. κάρυον hazel nut) pontic a.1] A musket or matchlock; a rifle.
1886in Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson. 1916‘Sapper’ Men, Women & Guns v. 156, I had words with a sentry at the frontier, but I put it across him with his own bundook. 1923Blackw. Mag. May 574/2 Those old bundooks were a source of perpetual nerves to us. 1926Ibid. Nov. 664/2 Fortunately bundooks..do not shoot very straight. |