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Definition of assegai in English: assegai(also assagai) nounPlural assegaisˈasəɡʌɪˈæsəˌɡaɪ 1A slender, iron-tipped, hardwood spear used chiefly by southern African peoples. Example sentencesExamples - It had an effect just like the longbow at Agincourt - and the Gatling gun, which eventually defeated the Zulus with their assegais.
- They carried no javelins, only the largest assegai.
- By the 1870s, mounted cavalry with muzzle-loaders, even breech-loaders, rather than foot soldiers with shields and assegais, were the spearhead of a number of surviving African armies.
- A police presence has been established to stabilise the area after 171 men were arrested and rifles, sidearms, ammunition, assegais and pangas seized.
- A large cache of weapons, including assegais, pangas, and axes, was confiscated, most of which were concealed in nearby forests.
- The irreplaceable steel-bladed assegai were saved for close-in work.
- Painted in pink, with black and white drawings of Zulu shields and assegais and cast-iron three-legged pots on the walls, the conference building can hold up to 500 people.
- Inside the village, park visitors could divide their attention, and their spare change, between a fortune-telling ‘bone thrower’ and a neutered ‘warrior,’ harmlessly gyrating with his assegai and shield.
- Traditional surgeons such as Ntsasa are invited to workshops to teach them how to sterilise assegais and prevent the spread of HIV-Aids or other diseases.
- He was presented with a traditional shield, assegai and a framed picture of African heritage.
- Police recovered five rifles, 18 sidearms, 84 bullets, and 700 assegais in follow-up house-to-house searches.
- Their assailants were armed with knobkierries, assegais and machetes.
- They can inherit anything from as little as an assegai to as much as a few beasts.
- Ordinarily he would be pinned to a banyan tree with an assagai before he'd read sports pages.
- There're a lot of interesting things to buy: tyre sandals, walking sticks, assegais, knobkerries, bead necklaces, Zulu pots and drums.
2A South African tree of the dogwood family, which yields hard timber. Curtisia dentata, family Cornaceae Example sentencesExamples - They surveyed the forest and studied the trees, identifying yellow wood, stinkwood, assegai wood, pear, alder and half a dozen other varieties.
- Other common trees of the forests read like nature's picnic basket: wild pear, wild peach, African holly, assegai wood, forest olive or ironwood, white stinkwood… the list goes on.
verbassegais, assegaing, assegaiedˈasəɡʌɪˈæsəˌɡaɪ [with object]Wound or kill with an assegai. he was a very brave man but he was eventually assegaied Example sentencesExamples - I found there a man in a red coat badly assegaied in the arm, unable to move.
- I could of course make no answer to this, so he sent men who clubbed or assegaied four of the culprits, but two escaped.
- One determined Zulu even jumped over the barricade and assegaied a disoriented patient to death, though he himself was quickly picked off by a British rifleman.
- Many of the soldiers indeed were assegaied before they could leave their tents, most were slaughtered at once, but a few managed to swim across the river.
- We retired well, but I shall never forget the Kaffirs getting in amongst us and assegaing our poor fellows.
Origin Early 17th century: from obsolete French azagaie or Portuguese azagaia, from Arabic az-zaġāyah, from az, al 'the' + Berber zaġāyah 'spear'. Definition of assegai in US English: assegai(also assagai) nounˈasəˌɡīˈæsəˌɡaɪ 1A slender, iron-tipped, hardwood spear used chiefly by southern African peoples. Example sentencesExamples - Inside the village, park visitors could divide their attention, and their spare change, between a fortune-telling ‘bone thrower’ and a neutered ‘warrior,’ harmlessly gyrating with his assegai and shield.
- It had an effect just like the longbow at Agincourt - and the Gatling gun, which eventually defeated the Zulus with their assegais.
- There're a lot of interesting things to buy: tyre sandals, walking sticks, assegais, knobkerries, bead necklaces, Zulu pots and drums.
- By the 1870s, mounted cavalry with muzzle-loaders, even breech-loaders, rather than foot soldiers with shields and assegais, were the spearhead of a number of surviving African armies.
- They carried no javelins, only the largest assegai.
- He was presented with a traditional shield, assegai and a framed picture of African heritage.
- A police presence has been established to stabilise the area after 171 men were arrested and rifles, sidearms, ammunition, assegais and pangas seized.
- The irreplaceable steel-bladed assegai were saved for close-in work.
- Police recovered five rifles, 18 sidearms, 84 bullets, and 700 assegais in follow-up house-to-house searches.
- Traditional surgeons such as Ntsasa are invited to workshops to teach them how to sterilise assegais and prevent the spread of HIV-Aids or other diseases.
- They can inherit anything from as little as an assegai to as much as a few beasts.
- A large cache of weapons, including assegais, pangas, and axes, was confiscated, most of which were concealed in nearby forests.
- Painted in pink, with black and white drawings of Zulu shields and assegais and cast-iron three-legged pots on the walls, the conference building can hold up to 500 people.
- Their assailants were armed with knobkierries, assegais and machetes.
- Ordinarily he would be pinned to a banyan tree with an assagai before he'd read sports pages.
2A South African tree of the dogwood family, which yields hard timber. Curtisia dentata, family Cornaceae Example sentencesExamples - Other common trees of the forests read like nature's picnic basket: wild pear, wild peach, African holly, assegai wood, forest olive or ironwood, white stinkwood… the list goes on.
- They surveyed the forest and studied the trees, identifying yellow wood, stinkwood, assegai wood, pear, alder and half a dozen other varieties.
verbˈasəˌɡīˈæsəˌɡaɪ [with object]Wound or kill with an assegai. he was a very brave man but he was eventually assegaied Example sentencesExamples - We retired well, but I shall never forget the Kaffirs getting in amongst us and assegaing our poor fellows.
- One determined Zulu even jumped over the barricade and assegaied a disoriented patient to death, though he himself was quickly picked off by a British rifleman.
- I could of course make no answer to this, so he sent men who clubbed or assegaied four of the culprits, but two escaped.
- I found there a man in a red coat badly assegaied in the arm, unable to move.
- Many of the soldiers indeed were assegaied before they could leave their tents, most were slaughtered at once, but a few managed to swim across the river.
Origin Early 17th century: from obsolete French azagaie or Portuguese azagaia, from Arabic az-zaġāyah, from az, al ‘the’ + Berber zaġāyah ‘spear’. |