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/dʒəˈzʌɪl/ · noun
(now chiefly 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.
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.
Use jezail when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jezail means (now chiefly historical) An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
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