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Jingal   Listen
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Jingal  n.  (Written also gingal and jingall)  A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel. (India)






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"Jingal" Quotes from Famous Books



... trick, no doubt, to the initiated; but the old conjurer's arm is bared, and the tin is, as far as I can discover, but an ordinary vessel, and the trick is performed without any cover, table, or cloth. After this he expectorates a number of glass marbles, and ends with a couple of solid iron jingal balls that he can scarce get out of his mouth. There is no mistake about their being of solid iron, and the old conjurer opens his mouth and lets me see them emerging from his throat. From what I see him do as the final act, and which there is no deception about, I am inclined ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens



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