Langar vs Sangar - What's the difference?
langar | sangar |
(military, UK) A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, page 422:
* 2002 , Stephen Hughes, The Iraqi Threat and Saddam Hussein?s Weapons of Mass Destruction ,
* 2003 , Mike Ryan, Secret Operations of the SAS ,
* 2007 , David Humphry, Siege ,
As nouns the difference between langar and sangar
is that langar is a free meal served by a religion, particularly Sikhism or Sufism while sangar is a stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post.sangar
English
Alternative forms
* sanger * sungarNoun
(en noun)- At the summits of these the enemy sharpshooters waited for them in sangars , or rock-built entrenchments, each of which had to be taken before the advance could safely continue.
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- A sangar' is a breastwork in the form of stonewalls built without bounding material. If stones are unavailable at or near the picket site sandbags are brought in to build the ' sangar .
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- As the sun finally set, the rebels rushed the sangars , but were cut to pieces by the deadly accurate SAS fire.
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- The game?s up, thought Piet as the Burghers returned fire and moved forward to attack the sangar .