assagai
noun
a variant of assegai.
assagais
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pluralof assagai.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
She was guarded by all her male relations, also dressed in their best, and armed with shields and assagais.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
Sheltering themselves behind stones, Hans and Considine looked eagerly in the direction whence the assagais had been thrown, and the former observed the ears of a horse just appearing over a bush.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
But after all it was assagais against machine guns, and the Zulus were finally defeated at Ulundi, July 4, 1879.
From The Negro by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
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
