assagai
Americannoun
plural
assagais, assagaied, assagaiingnoun
Example Sentences
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Collect a good lot of assegais and other useful props.
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They say that there are altogether three thousand muskets, six million rounds of ball cartridge, and half-a-million assegais in the hands of the natives.
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The women appeal plaintively to the men, who slowly withdraw, stamping on the ground and darting their short spears or assegais towards the sky.
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We all had assegais, or short stabbing spears, and regardless of these I dashed into the m�l�e.
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If a woman’s husband dies, and she afterwards procures another, the new man takes up his abode in the hut of the dead one, becomes owner of his assegais and battle-axes, and assumes his name.
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