assegai
nounEtymology
From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).
Definitions
A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples…
A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.
- But now the Moormen, stalking o'er the strand / to guard the wat'ery stores the strangers need; / this, targe on arm and assegai in hand, / that, with his bended bow, and venom'd reed[.]
- My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
- Native mats covered the clay walls; a collection of spears, assegais, shields, knives was hung up in trophies.
The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make…
The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais.
- In the clearing, built around the base of an assegai tree, stood a hut, plastered in cow dung.
To spear with an assegai.
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