Definition of "jingals" []

• Plural form of jingal. (noun)

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• "This provoked a great screaming of instructions to heave to immediately, but no one moved to the jingals, so I jumped on the rail and pointed to our flag."
• ""Suppose they fire on us?" says he, eyeing the jingals."
• "He turned to scream orders to his men, and I thought, oh Jesus, here goes one of us, but it was evidently a promise for the future, for all their response was to line the parapet and blaze away with their jingals at the Frogs, who were still engaged in the forward entrenchments three hundred yards away."