jezail
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian جزایل (jazâ'îl).
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Noun
jezail (plural jezails)
- (now chiefly historical) An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.
- 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, 3rd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., , published 1892, →OCLC:
- There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
- 1998, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 9:
- Those deadly, long-barrelled jezails, which once wrought such slaughter among the British redcoats, had as their modern counterparts the heat-seeking Stinger, which proved so lethal against Russian helicopter-gunships.
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Noun
jezail m (plural jezailes)