jezail

noun

1. (historical)An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.

   “There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.”

   “Those deadly, long-barrelled jezails, which once wrought such slaughter among the British redcoats, had as their modern counterparts the heat-seeking Stinger, which proved so lethal against Russian helicopter-gunships.”