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Assegai   Listen
noun
Assegai, Assagai  n.  A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Assegai" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the "Nottingham party." They took possession of a lovely vale, which they named Clumber, in honour of the Duke of Newcastle, their patron. "Sefton's party" settled on the Assegai Bush River and founded the village of Salem, afterwards noted as the headquarters of the Reverend William Shaw, a Wesleyan, and one of the most able and useful of South Africa's missionary pioneers. Wilson's party settled between the Waay-plaats and the ...
— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne



Words linked to "Assegai" :   lance, assagai



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