assagai
Americannoun
plural
assagais, assagaied, assagaiingnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Mr Pringle had just fired his rifle, and was reloading when the assagai struck him.
From Six Months at the Cape by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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
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 Fenn, George Manville
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 Weir, Harrison
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