Definition of "jerid" []

• Alternative form of jereed. (noun)

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• "We were greeted on all sides, and escorted in triumph to the village; the men riding _jerid_ -- that is, firing from horseback at full speed, hanging over by one stirrup with the bridle in their mouths, quivering their long lances in the air, throwing and catching them again at full gallop, yelling and shouting their war-cries."
• "But as he practised in the field the exercise of the jerid, Soliman was killed by a fall from his horse; and the aged"
• "_jerid_, Soliman was killed by a fall from his horse; and the aged"