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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.
- The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais.
Verb
- To spear with an assegai.
Exempel
- 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.
- Without a word, he took my foreskin, pulled it forward, and then, in a single motion, brought down his assegai.
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