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assagais

  • plural
    of assagai.
    assagai
    noun
    a variant of assegai.

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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 John Lort Stokes

Verily, the day will come when these warlike tribes shall beat their spears into pruning-hooks, and their assagais into ploughshares, and shall learn war no more!

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

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 Emma Watts Phillips

Regardless of several assagais that whizzed close to them, they galloped hither and thither among the bushes, but without success.

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

“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 George Manville Fenn

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