Terms vs Jezail - What's the difference?
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An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.
*1887 , (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), A Study in Scarlet , I:
*:There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 9:
*: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.
