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assegai

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈæsəɡaɪ/Part of speech nounSorted aaegissStarts with AEnds with I0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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