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Definition of Gingall
1. jingal [n -S] - See also: jingal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gingall
Literary usage of Gingall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Missionary in China: A Narrative of Twenty Years' Experience by William Lockhart (1861)
"CHINESE ARMS; THE gingall; FIRE-BALLS J FIRE-POTS AND STINK-POTS; ROCKETS.
SEVERAL cases of diseased ancle-bones in girls were brought to the hospital at ..."
2. Five Months on the Yang-Tsze: And Notices of the Present Rebellions in China by Thomas Wright Blakiston (1862)
"Then he mounted on a stool and poured the powder in at the muzzle ; the gingall
was thumped on the ground, and, with a long bamboo, which served as a ramrod ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"The 'HED' does not record this meaning of the word grasshopper, and the earliest
instance of gingall that it (as also Yule in 'Hobson- Jobson ') gives is ..."
4. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years by Laurence Oliphant (1859)
"... barbed as arrows, thudded about, and fizzed for a moment in the grass, and
the grasshopper buzz of a gingall ball was occasionally audible. ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1860)
"More than twenty boats now came alongside the bank of the southern fort, and the
barbarians, having landed in a body, formed outside the trench; our gingall ..."
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