"jackall" meaning in English

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      "form": "jackalls",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "jackal"
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          "text": "1774?, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature\nThe jackall, the syagush, the wolf, and the dog, are of this kind; they pursue with patience rather than swiftness; their prey flies at first, and leaves them for miles behind; but they keep on with a constant steady pace […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819 July 1, “The Political Vis——ss”, in [John Mitford], editor, The New Bon Ton Magazine; or, Telescope of the Times, volume III, number 15, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 179:",
          "text": "A nephew of hers, after receiving some learning at her ladyship's expence, got a commission, and fell upon the field of Waterloo; another is still at her heels, as a sort of jackall to fetch and carry when required.",
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        "Obsolete spelling of jackal."
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          "text": "1774?, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature\nThe jackall, the syagush, the wolf, and the dog, are of this kind; they pursue with patience rather than swiftness; their prey flies at first, and leaves them for miles behind; but they keep on with a constant steady pace […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819 July 1, “The Political Vis——ss”, in [John Mitford], editor, The New Bon Ton Magazine; or, Telescope of the Times, volume III, number 15, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 179:",
          "text": "A nephew of hers, after receiving some learning at her ladyship's expence, got a commission, and fell upon the field of Waterloo; another is still at her heels, as a sort of jackall to fetch and carry when required.",
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