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a blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries

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Usage examples (4)
  • The Eastern warrior, raising himself in his stirrups, and shaking aloft his lance, replied, “Hardly, I fear, shall I find one with a crossed shoulder who will exchange with me...
  • The Eastern warrior, raising himself in his stirrups, and shaking aloft his lance, replied, ` ` Hardly, I fear, shall I find one with a crossed shoulder, who will exchange with...
  • A small bundle of javelins (the jerrid of the Persians), with which they are very expert, for I have often seen them, at a distance of ten feet, bury one more than two...
  • In tourney light the Moor his jerrid flings,
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