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jazail

jazail is the alternative form of jezail.

Meaning of jezail

Noun

jezail (plural jezails)

  1. (historical) An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.
    • There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […])...

Forms of jazail

pluraljazails

Questions about jazail

What is jazail the alternative form of?
Jazail is the alternative form of jezail.

Words near jazail in the dictionary

  1. jaywalks
  2. Jaywick
  3. Jayzus
  4. jaz
  5. Jaza
  6. jazail
  7. jazails
  8. jazakallah
  9. jazarine
  10. jazel
  11. jazels

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