Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
jereed .
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- noun A blunt spear or
javelin .
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Examples
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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 cast of the jerrid.”
The Talisman 2008
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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 cast of the jerrid. ''
The Talisman 1894
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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 feet deep in the flanks of a buffalo.
Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820
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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 feet deep in the flanks of a buffalo.
Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820
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