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/ˈæsəɡaɪ/ · noun
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.
A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns.
Without a word, he took my foreskin, pulled it forward, and then, in a single motion, brought down his assegai.
In the clearing, built around the base of an assegai tree, stood a hut, plastered in cow dung.
Use assegai when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Assegai means A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa..
Common synonyms include assagai.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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[.]
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