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- noun Plural form of
tindal .
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Examples
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The "tindals" and divers provide boats and all essential gear for the work afloat; while ashore the government supplies buildings and various forms of labor for dealing with the curious industry.
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888
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The men live in well constructed "barracks," erected by the owner of the estate, and it is one of the duties of the Chinese "tindals," or overseers acting under the Europeans to see that they are kept in a cleanly, sanitary condition.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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The native staff, being all petty officers raised from amongst the convicts, consisted of three duffadars, eight first tindals, twenty-two second tindals, ninety-four peons, and sixty-five orderlies, for the number of convicts then under confinement.
Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869
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Belts and brass plates for them were supplied only to duffadars, tindals, peons, and orderlies.
Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869
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