jezail

The jezail no longer sees widespread use in warfare of any nature.

"The Sultan killed this one when he was a young man, with a jezail!

One raised his jezail and powder smokespurted from the long barrel.

Driven out by the heat, the Arableader came running from the hut with a jezail in one hand.

The muzzle of the long jezail almosttouched his face as Dorian fired.

One of them lifted along-barrelled jezail, and aimed over the narrowing gap at thelongboat.

Hal saw a turbaned head in the stone opening and the muzzleof a smoking jezail aimed down at them.

The heavy weight of the jezail allowed it to absorb more force from the round, imparting less recoil to the weapon's user.

He lifted the Jezail to his shoulder and aimed at O'Flynn in the canoe.

Hesaw one of the men above him swing a long-barrelled jezail over the topof the wall and aim it directly into his face.

"God is great" He flung up the long jezail to his shoulder and fired itinto the band of English seamen.

There was his jezail inthe leather scabbard, and the powder flask and shot bag.

He carried his long jezail slung overhis back, and his shield on his shoulder.

During this period the jezail was the primary ranged weapon of Afghan warriors and was used with great effect against British troops.

Drops to a ten-rupee jezail.

The film ends with Koverchenko being hoisted up to the flying helicopter, flying away, the jezail still clenched in his hand.

The jezail is mentioned repeatedly in some of Wilbur Smith's books, most notably "Monsoon".

There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.

There was a spurt ofblue smoke from the muzzle of his jezail and the ball thudded into thetiller bar in Tom's hand.

One of the Arabs, more alert than his companions, threw up his jezail and the long flame of the discharge ripped through the darkness.

Larger calibers were possible because the long length of the typical jezail meant that it was heavier than typical muskets of the time.

Surrounding the cantonment were several abandoned forts which, although out of range of British muskets, were close enough for jezail fire.

Because of their advantage in range, Afghan rebels typically used the jezail from the tops of cliffs along valleys and defiles during ambushes.

Despite the advantages over the Brown Bess, British forces were typically able to defeat jezail armed Afghans when they fought on relatively flat terrain.

They have taken away my long jezail, My shield and sabre fine, And heaved me into the Central jail For lifting of the kine.