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Definition of Jereed
1. n. A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights.
Definition of Jereed
1. Noun. A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jereed
1. a wooden javelin [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jereed
Literary usage of Jereed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... and particularly of the citadel, a weak modern building that faces the jereed,
there is a great ..."
2. Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, by Bussorah, Bagdad by George Thomas Keppel Albemarle (1827)
"... Bricks—Cylinders—Throwing the jereed—Sham fight —Tower of Babel—Babylonian
boats—Earthenware tombs—Statue of a Lion—Hanging Gardens—Palace. ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"... 1809, by tho French, under Suchet, over the Spanish forces under Blake.
Belchite has some manufactories of woollens. Pop. 2656. BELED-EL-jereed, or ..."
4. The Egyptian Sketch Book by Charles Godfrey Leland (1874)
"The jereed. — The Great American Traveller. — A Railroad to Mecca. — The Chamber
of Truth. To have been to Mecca gives a man quite a character in Egypt. ..."
5. Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia by William Cowper Prime (1857)
"In fact, to get up what the natives call a jereed play, in which the Arabs should
display their horsemanship for our especial edification. ..."
6. Personal Narrative of Travels in Babylonia, Assyria, Media, and Scythia by George Thomas Keppel Albemarle (1827)
"... inscriptions—Bricks—Cylinders—Throwing the jereed—Sham fight—Tower of
Babel—Babylonian boats—Earthenware tombs—Statue of a Lion— Hanging Gardens—Palace. ..."
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