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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

“You should be ver’ glad de assagai did not stick you in de neck like von zow.—Is zat rain vich I feels in ze back of mine head?”

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

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

Jerry referred to a wound which an assagai aimed at his heart had that day inflicted on his nose.

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

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 Yarrow, H. C. (Harry Crécy)

The furniture consists of a few mats, several baskets, a milk-pail, a number of earthen pots, a bundle of assagais, and a few other weapons of war.

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

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

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 Phillips, Emma Watts

Then I glided out, my kaross tied up, the tobacco strung round my shoulders, and my shield and assagais in my hand.

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

“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