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n. (context now chiefly historical English) An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.
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The jezail (Sometimes Jezzail from the Pashto language) was a simple, cost-efficient and often handmade muzzle-loading long arm commonly used in British India, Central Asia and parts of the Middle East in the past.
Usage examples of "jezail".
And, were you so foolish as to try, you would be picked off by a ten rupee jezail loaded with who knows what, possibly a Lee-Enfield if you were lucky, before you had gone ten yards.
Flanders field, his body never to be recovered from the enveloping mud, or to be blasted to bits by a jezail and left to desiccate on the hot stones of the Frontier?
At last when he was ten years old they agreed to take him and they supplied him with the only weapon that came to hand, an old jezail that had long done no more than decorate a wall of their home.
I stood there I felt in my shoulder the pang of the old Jezail bullet wound which I had sustained a quarter of a century before, the wound which had led indirectly to my association with Sherlock Holmes.
I had remained indoors all day, for the weather had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence.
Sebastian remembered then the ancient muzzle-loading Jezail he had seen the captain polishing lovingly on their first day out from Zanzibar, and he felt his anger rising in earnest.
One of the Arabs, more alert than his companions, threw up his jezail and the long flame of the discharge ripped through the darkness.
I was all too aware of the Jezail bullet that had passed through it so many years before, when, during my service in Afghanistan, I had been struck at the battle of Maiwand.
There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
Few man were dressed or armed in the same way: lance and spear, axe and round leather targe, rifle, jezail and the dreadful broadsword were poised.
They all perished, shot with jezails or hacked to pieces with talwars.
They were armed with bow and lance and long-barrelled jezails with curved and jewelled butts.
Autarch was to my left, hanging limp between two evzones who had slung their long-barreled jezails aslant their backs.
They were armed with bow and lance and long-barrelled jezails with curved and jewelled butts.
His blade clashed against the steel barrel, deflecting it upwards as the jezail roared an instant after the snap of the lock and a blinding billow of smoke and burning powder struck his face and singed his eyebrows, but the chunk of beaten potleg howled inches over his head.