jerreed
Americannoun
noun
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The Persians are more famous for throwing the jerreed than any other nation.
From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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.’
From The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi by George Henry Borrow
A thousand horsemen dashed into the arena and threw the jerreed.
From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Oh! some must tug the galley's oar, and some must tend the steed— This boy will bear a Scheik's chibouk, and that a Bey's jerreed.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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