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
They had proceeded thus in opposite directions some distance when Southey was startled by an assagai striking the cliff on which he was climbing.
From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Opening his eyes again, he beheld a sturdy Bushman gazing at him in open-mouthed surprise, with an uplifted assagai in his hand.
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)
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 Phillips, Emma Watts
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