jezail
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Etymology[edit]
From Persian جزایل (jazā'īl).
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Noun[edit]
jezail (plural jezails)
- (now chiefly historical) An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, I:
- There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 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.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, I:
