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jingalnoun
A type of gun, usually a light piece mounted on a swivel, sometimes taking the form of a heavy musket fired from a rest.
Wikipedia
jingal
The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 18th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Essentially, it was a scaled-up version of the army's standard infantry musket, operating under the same principles, but with a bore of up to one-inch (25.4 mm) calibre. These weapons filled a gap in firepower between the musket and the lightest artillery pieces, such as the swivel gun. This sort of weapon may also be found described as a rampart gun, hackbut or amusette, a name originally given to early medieval hand cannon.
Webster Dictionary
Jingalnoun
a small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel
Etymology: [Hind. jangl a swivel, a large musket.]
Wikidata
Jingal
A jingal, or gingall, is a type of gun, usually a light piece mounted on a swivel; it sometimes takes the form of a heavy musket fired from a rest. Frequently a form of wall gun either by design or use. The weapon was used by the Chinese and Indians in the 19th century, such as by the Taiping armies. This weapon figures in Kipling's poem, The Grave of the Hundred Head.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Jingal
jing′gal, n. a large Chinese swivel-musket.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
jingal
A kind of long heavy musket supported about the centre of its length on a pivot, carrying a ball of from a quarter to half a pound, and generally fired by a matchlock; much used in China and the Indies. It is charged by a separate chamber, dropped into the breech and keyed.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
jingal
A small, portable piece of ordnance, to be fired from the ground or on a wall, resting on a long, slender butt-end, and two legs. This piece was used in India. See Gingals.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of jingal in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of jingal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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