jezail

plural jezails · alternative jazail · alternative juzail

1. historicalAn 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., […]), chapter I (Mr. Sherlock Holmes), page 1

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   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.

   1998, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 9