单词 | jingal |
释义 | jingaln. Now historical. 1. A heavy firearm or field gun with a long barrel, suitable for firing with the barrel resting on a person's shoulder or mounted on a swivel, either in a static location or on a vehicle.This type of firearm was widely used in China and India in the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > swivel-gun swivel-gun1712 swivel1748 wall-piece1755 jingal1761 zamburak1825 pivot gun1831 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > musket musket1574 snaphancec1575 muscado1592 firelock1625 matchlock1638 fusee1661 squirt-fire1678 fusil1680 jingal1761 Brown Bess1785 tophaike1813 Tower musket1832 jezail1838 trumpet-pipe1844 bundook1886 needle-musket1898 1761 London Gaz. Extraordinary 20 July 3/1 Ammunition fixed for..Wall Pieces..Muskets..Carbines..Pistols..Gingalls. 1818 M. Elphinstone in Sir T. E. Colebrook Life M. Elphinstone (1884) II. 31 There is much and good sniping from matchlocks and gingals. 1829 J. Shipp Mem. Mil. Career III. 40 They fired their long ginjalls, which kill a mile off. 1864 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. Your Talookdar..lived in a mud fort, mounted with jingalls and wall-cannon. 1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xxxiii. 392 The emissaries could now see the Chinese preparing to discharge some small field-pieces or gingalls at them. 2008 K. Nossov War Elephants 40 The 25–50mm (1–2in) calibre jingalls tapered off into a tail, by which they could be aimed and held while shooting. ΚΠ 1839 A. Abbott in C. R. Low Afghan War (1879) i. 100 I picked up a five pound shot and a six ounce jinjall both of hammered iron. 1900 Cent. Mag. Dec. 303/1 Among the bullets which go over the wall at our backs is an occasional jingal, which swishes down into the canal with a splash. Compounds General attributive, as jingal ball, jingal battery, jingal rifle, etc. ΚΠ 1761 London Gaz. Extraordinary 20 July 3/1 English Wall Pieces, good,..18. Ditto, bad,..8. French Wall Pieces, good,..190. Gingall Pieces, old,..73. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 57 He fell dead by a ‘gingall’ ball. 1857 S. Osborn Quedah xv. 201 The gingal battery fired away manfully. 1884 A. Forbes Chinese Gordon ii. 47 The gunners were covered from musket and gingall fire by large wooden mantlets. 2011 P. Peterson Standard Catal. Mil. Firearms (ed. 6) 494/1 Chinese, Jingal rifle, caliber .60, serial number IRS 9083H. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1761 |
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