gingals

They have made innumerable implements and weapons, from pens and fans and chopsticks to ploughs and carts and ships; from fiery darts, 'flame elephants,' bows and spears, spiked chariots, battering-rams, and hurling-engines to mangonels, trebuchets, matchlocks of wrought iron and plain bore with long barrels resting on a stock, and gingals fourteen feet long resting on

Myths and Legends of China 1909

Then they began pelting at us with their _gingals_, first treating us to quite a respectable fusillade, and then blazing away, every man for himself, as fast as they could load and fire; some of their bullets singing past us so closely that I inwardly congratulated myself upon my wisdom in ordering everybody under cover.

The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Harry Collingwood 1886

Meanwhile the pirates had ceased to fire their brass gun, and the fusillade from their _gingals_ had slackened considerably, thanks, no doubt, to the indefatigable manner in which the baronet and I had plied our rifles upon them.

The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Harry Collingwood 1886

The tars were now at work firing the gingals attached to the bulwarks and the matchlocks with which the deck was strewn, at the approaching junks.

Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril 1867

In a minute a scattering fire of gingals and matchlocks was opened from the junks and the bullets pattered on the water round the boats.

Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril 1867

The tars were now at work firing the gingals attached to the bulwarks and the matchlocks, with which the deck was strewn, at the approaching junks.

Tales of Daring and Danger 1867

In a minute a scattering fire of gingals and matchlocks was opened from the junks, and the bullets pattered on the water round the boats.

Tales of Daring and Danger 1867