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单词 tindal
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tindaln.1

/ˈtɪndəl/
Etymology: < Malayalam taṇḍal, Telugu taṇḍelu, also Hindustani taṇḍēl, chief or head man of a body of men.
East India.
1. A native petty officer of lascars, on board ship, or in the ordnance department; also the foreman of a gang of labourers on public works (Yule); a boatswain; a foreman.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > boatswain
boatswainOE
boatsman1513
bosun1592
tindal1698
contre-master1726
serang1799
Pipes1818
Spithead nightingale1890
bose1912
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 107 The Captain is called Nucquedah, the Boatswain Tindal.
1778 R. Orme Hist. Mil. Trans. Brit. Nation II. 339 One Tindal, or corporal of the Lascars.
1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1844) I. 93 A detachment of gun lascars, consisting of 1 tindal and 20 lascars.
1803 R. Percival in Naval Chron. 10 26 Each of the boats carries..a tindal, or chief boat-man, who acts as pilot.
1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India x. 343 The ‘Tindal’, or superintendent of the coolies, was dismissed.
1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 23 Our Tindal jumped out on the bank, on which was not four feet water.
2. A personal attendant: see quots.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun]
thanea700
yeoman1345
squirec1380
foot followera1382
handservanta1382
servitora1382
ministera1384
servera1425
squire of (or for) the body (or household)1450
attender1461
waitera1483
awaiter1495
tender?a1505
waiting-man1518
satellite?1520
attendant1555
sitter-byc1555
pediseque1606
asseclist?1607
tendant1614
assecle1616
fewterera1625
escudero1631
peon1638
wait1652
under spur-leather1685
body servant1689
slavey1819
tindal1859
maid-attendant1896
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 36 Almost every one who visits the Hills keeps a servant called a tindal. His duty is to look after the men who carry your janpan, to go errands, to keep up the fire.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 40 My tindal aroused me at eleven, and informed me that a young man wished to see me.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tindaln.2

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Obsolete.
See quots.
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1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 22 [At Billingsgate] Sprats are sold on board the ships by the bushel. A ‘tindal’ is a thousand bushels of sprats.
1863 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Tindal, a thousand bushels of sprats.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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