assagai

[ as-uh-gahy ]

noun

assagaied assagaiingplural: assagais

1. a variant of assegai.

assagai

/ ˈæsəˌɡaɪ /

noun

1. See assegai
   a variant spelling of assegai

Example Sentences

The young Prince Napoleon, whose dreadful death the reader may recall, was slain by an assagai.

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I shouted, and, shield and assagai in hand, the black dashed to my side as if to defend me from some attack.

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I whispered, turning to him where he squatted with assagai in hand and his shield spread across his knees.

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His Bootchuana companion at that time threw his assagai, which entered the lion's back.

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The Caffre word assagai, in the sense of javelin, was simply borrowed from the Portuguese azagaia.

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