jerrid

“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

“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

“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