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assegai
A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.
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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.
The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais.
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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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