- a variation of assegai.
assagai
Americannoun
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assagais
plural
noun
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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
Mutchuisho would not allow a man to put an assagai into the elephant until the morrow, and placed two relays of sentries to keep watch on either side of him.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
His Bootchuana companion at that time threw his assagai, which entered the lion's back.
From Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals by Harrison Weir
Then I found that Joeboy had crept round to my right side, between me and the next trooper, and, assagai in hand, was holding on to my saddle with his left hand.
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
The bow, arrows, assagai, and clubs of the deceased are hung on the same post.
From A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow
Regardless of several assagais that whizzed close to them, they galloped hither and thither among the bushes, but without success.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
I waved mine in answer; and directly after he began to run, coming up laughing merrily, and ending by throwing down three assagais and the bundle he carried, as he cried: “Come back, boss.”
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
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 Emma Watts Phillips
“Boss Val going to fight?” he said inquiringly, and as he asked his question he fitted his long, elliptical shield well upon his left arm and arranged his assagais handy for throwing.
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
Sheltering themselves behind stones, Hans and Considine looked eagerly in the direction whence the assagais had been thrown, and the former observed the ears of a horse just appearing over a bush.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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