| 释义 |
‖ jezail E. Ind.|dʒəˈzaɪl, -ˈeɪl|
Also juzail.
[Pers. jazā'īl, a large musket or rifle (used with a rest), a swivel-gun, wall-piece; according to Redman, corrupt. of jazā'ir: cf. jazā'irī a matchlockman, one of the guard of the Safawī kings.]
A long and heavy Afghan musket.
1838–42Gen. A. Abbott Jrnl. Afghan War (1879) ii. 167 The assailants had flint locks to their juzails. 1862Beveridge Hist. India III. viii. iv. 414 The Afghan jezails carrying much farther than the British muskets, poured in a fire which could not be returned. 1881Palgrave Vis. Eng., Valley of Death ix, The one who out⁓slipp'd the jezail and the knife! 1889R. Kipling Departm. Ditties, etc. (1899) 67 Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail [rime defile]. 1892― Barrack-room Ballads 84 All night the cressets glimmered pale On Ulwar Sabre and Tonk Jezail.
attrib.1892Pall Mall G. 21 Apr. 4/3 Colonel Durand himself receiving a very serious wound in the groin with a jezail bullet—a garnet enclosed in lead.
Hence ‖ jeˈzailchee [f. prec. with Turkī agential suffix chī], a soldier carrying a jezail.
1862Beveridge India III. viii. v. 434 It was deemed necessary ‘..to get rid..of the detachment of jezailchees’. |