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Definition of Assegai

Assegai
Assagai As"sa*gai, Assegai As"se*gai, n. [Pg. azagaia, Sp. azagaya, fr. a Berber word. Cf. Lancegay.] A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.
Assegai
Assegai As"se*gai, n. Same as Assagai.

Meaning of Assegai from wikipedia

- An ****egai or ****agai is a polearm used for throwing, usually a light spear or javelin made up of a wooden handle with an iron tip. The use of various...
- Look up ****egai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An ****egai is a type of spear. ****egai may also refer to: ****egai (automobile), a South African-built...
- ****egai is Wilbur Smith's thirty-second novel, it follows The Triumph of the Sun in which the author brought the Courtney and Ballantyne series together...
- Curtisia dentata (commonly known as the ****egai tree or Cape lancewood, Afrikaans: ****egaai, Xhosa: Umgxina, Zulu: Umagunda) is a flowering tree from...
- The ****egai was a Formula One car built by Tony Kotze under the marque Bond Cars. It was named after an African spear. It was entered for two non-championship...
- The Beatty-Johl BJ-2 ****egai was a single seat, high performance competition glider built in South Africa in the early 1960s. Only one was built; it was...
- from the country's enemies. The Zulu warriors used a long version of the ****egai javelin as their primary weapon. The Zulu legendary leader Shaka initiated...
- Dangpa Gichang Hoko yari Ji Kama-yari Qiang Sibat Trishula Yari Naginata ****egai Ahlspiess Boar spear Bohemian earspoon Brandistock Dory Fauchard Goedendag...
-  168–173. ISBN 9780521517942. OCLC 778617810. Steenkamp, Willem (2012). ****egais, drums and dragoons: a military and social history of the Cape, 1510-1806...
- zaġāya, but the English term, derived from the Old French via Berber, is "****egai". It is a polearm used for throwing or hurling, usually a light spear or...