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• a variation of assegai.

assagai

American  

[as-uh-gahy] / ˈæs əˌgaɪ /

noun

• assagais
  plural

1. a variant of assegai.

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assagai British  

/ ˈæsəˌɡaɪ /

noun

1. a variant spelling of assegai

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• assagais
  plural

Example Sentences

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assagai assagais

Impersonal, implacable, patient, he waits the consummation of justice, knowing his thought will eventually bring his enemy within range of his assagai which he has learned to hurl with his feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each also bore an assagai and shield, giving them a most formidable appearance, as with much gesticulation they stared at me.

From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts

Abruptly halting at one spot, he cast down an assagai, and ordered the people to dig—an operation which produced, as it generally did, a tuft of fur and some beads.

From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts

There was a loud rattling noise at the same moment, for Joeboy had reached under the wagon to strike here and there with the shaft of his assagai.

From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by Fenn, George Manville

Rising quietly, the trader advanced with a peaceful air, holding the tobacco out to the Bushman, who looked suspicious—and distrustfully shook his assagai; but Stephen took no heed.

From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

She was guarded by all her male relations, also dressed in their best, and armed with shields and assagais.

From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts

Looking down, I perceived that the hunters were approaching the edge of the bush, which yet concealed them, wriggling through it like snakes, with their assagais ready to hand.

From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts

Hazeygaeys are synonymous with assagais, the name for the short African spear, used by the tribes between Port Natal and the Cape, and which is generally supposed to be the native term for the weapon.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort

“But you’ll have to lend me one of your assagais till I can get a rifle.”

From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by Fenn, George Manville

Verily, the day will come when these warlike tribes shall beat their spears into pruning-hooks, and their assagais into ploughshares, and shall learn war no more!

From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by Williams, George Washington