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- noun Alternative form of
jereed .
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Examples
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This boy will bear a Scheiks chibouk, and that a Beys jerreed.
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One day the Bey sent this message to the Cogia, 'Come, I intend to play the jerreed with you, for I wish to have a little jerreed playing.'
The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi Hoca Nasreddin 1842
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Persians are more famous for throwing the jerreed than any other nation.
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Alroy still lingered, and for some hours the warriors of his staff might have been observed lounging about the citadel, or practising their skill in throwing the jerreed as they exercised their impatient chargers before the gates.
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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A thousand horsemen dashed into the arena and threw the jerreed.
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Now the Cogia had an old ox, which, saddling immediately, he mounted, and rode to the place where they played at the jerreed.
The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi Hoca Nasreddin 1842
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This boy will bear a Scheik's chibouk, and that a Bey's jerreed.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829
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A thousand horsemen dashed into the arena and threw the jerreed.
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Alroy still lingered, and for some hours the warriors of his staff might have been observed lounging about the citadel, or practising their skill in throwing the jerreed as they exercised their impatient chargers before the gates.
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Spanish poets call them, the sound is Ollah: a cry of which the Turks, for a silent people, are somewhat profuse, particularly during the jerreed [jarīd], or in the chase, but mostly in battle.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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