"esaul" meaning in English

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          "text": "‘There is no order in the Ukraine: the colonels and the esauls quarrel like dogs: there is no chief over them all.’",
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          "code": "az",
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          "sense": "(now historical) the head of a group or unit of Cossacks",
          "word": "yasavul"
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          "sense": "(now historical) the head of a group or unit of Cossacks",
          "word": "იასაული"
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