What is "gingall"

Usage examples of "gingall".

Between each gingall was a small hole in the parapet which held an earthen vessel filled with slaked lime, ready to be flung in the faces of an enemy attempting to escalade the walls.

The swivel-gun and the gingall both hit the sandbag immediately opposite, ripping it and covering both him and the table with its contents.

Scarcely, however, had they left the boats than every gun still serviceable in the fort, with numberless gingalls, rifles, and muskets, were directed upon them.

The parapet was two feet thick and seven high, containing embrasures for large gingalls three or four feet only apart.

He has nearly thirty junks, carrying heavy guns and gingalls, and 500 or 600 men.

In their hurry they had thrown down their gingalls, and were armed only with their swords.

Each officer having soldiers under him traverses at intervals during the night every street under his jurisdiction, and these armed followers, whether to intimidate criminals or to show their vigilance, are in the habit of discharging their old-fashioned matchlocks and gingalls as they patrol.

The noise was something awful, and as it came into the lonely Stadthaus, and red, blue, crimson, and greenish-yellow glares at short intervals lighted up the picturesque Malacca steam and its blue and yellow houses, with their steep red-tiled roofs and balconies and quaint projections, and the streets were traced in fire and smoke, while crackers, squibs, and rockets went off in hundreds, and cannon, petards, and gingalls were fired incessantly, and gongs, drums, and tom-toms were beaten, the sights, and the ceaseless, tremendous, universal din made a rehearsal of the final assault on a city in old days.

Some gingalls were fired at us, but we got away among the bushes, and ran as hard as our legs could carry us in shore.

He has nearly thirty junks, carrying heavy guns and gingalls, and 500 or 600 men.