¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bundook
1. a type of rifle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bundook
Literary usage of Bundook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Somaliland: Being an Account of Two Expeditions Into the Far Interior by Charles Victor Alexander Peel (1900)
"... and as I was lying resting on my bed I heard yells of ' bundook! bundook !'
and a sound of men rushing in every direction to find their rifles. ..."
2. Gun Fodder: The Diary of Four Years of War by Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (1919)
"I don't deny it for a moment, but I'll show you what the ruddy bundook says about
it." And at the end of half an hour's shooting ..."
3. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund, Edward Byles Cowell, Frederick William Thomas (1864)
"... the different arms (fire arms), as for instance, a bundook, or matchlock, was
called To- fung; a tope, or cannon, ..."
4. Things Indian: Being Discursive Notes on Various Subjects Connected with India by William Crooke (1906)
"... and the influence of Venice appears in the name bundook* applied to the Indian
matchlock, which is derived from the name of that city. ..."
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