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Topkhana|ˈtəʊpˌkɑːnə|
Also 7 Tophana, 8 Tope Khonnah; 9 Tope Khâna; top-khana.
[a. Pers. and Hind., ad. Turk. tophane (also used), f. top (see topchee) + Pers. khāna house.]
a. In Turkey, a gun-factory or arsenal, spec. the gun-factories in Galata, Constantinople (Istanbul), during the Ottoman Empire; hence (the current sense) the district of Istanbul adjoining them.
b. In India, artillery; ordnance department.
1656W. Jesson Let. 4 Dec. in W. Foster Eng. Factories in India 1618–69 (1921) X. 73 The King, being resolved to renue the warr against Candahor, dispeeded Cossom Ckawn..with the tobeconah [tōp-khāna, artillery] for Lahore. 1668P. Rycaut Pres. State Ottoman Empire 200 Their quarters are at Tophana, or the place of Guns in the Suburbs of Constantinople. 1765J. Z. Holwell Hist. Events (1766) I. 96 By the treachery of the Tope Khonnah Droger, the cannon were loaded with powder only. 1842C. Masson Baluchistan, Afghanistan & Panjab II. 256 From the court of the Dafta Khâna the Tope Khâna, or artillery ground, is entered. 1901Kipling Kim iii. 67, I have known Him since he was a lieutenant in the top-khana (the Artillery). 1969D. Walder Chanak Affair xix. 350 An enormous Turkish flag floated over the Tophana naval depot. 1972D. K. Palit Hist. Regiment of Artillery i. 8 Although Shivaji had a regular department of Topkhana..he never had a foundry of his own. He managed to obtain some guns from the foundries at Surat..but by and large his Topkhana was described as a collection of ‘old and defective’ guns. 1974J. F. Guilmartin Gunpowder & Galleys i. 44 The cannon foundries of the Tophane were directly dependent upon English tin which they could get only through Genoese entrepreneurs. |