- a variation of assegai.
assagai
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assagais
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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
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Emma Watts Phillips
I whispered, turning to him where he squatted with assagai in hand and his shield spread across his knees.
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
The shield and assagai are not, however, done away with.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
I have said that I cast one of my assagais only occasionally.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
Many had run swiftly back to the huts, and now I could see them, and others, swarming forward, and in the moonlight the glint of assagais.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford
Then he whispered to two men, who quietly took their assagais and stationed themselves one on either side of their white prisoner—for such he really was.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
This being performed, by shouts and flourishes of our assagais we began to beat up the game, and drive the startled animals who sprang forth before us in the direction of the hopo.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
On the walls and in corners were several flint-lock guns, and one or two of the short light javelins used by the Kafirs for throwing in battle, named assagais.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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