Definitions for assagai

assagai as·sa·gai

Spelling: [as-uh-gahy]
IPA: /ˈæs əˌgaɪ/

Assagai is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in assagai (aaagiss).

Definitions for assagai

noun

  1. assegai.
  2. the slender javelin or spear of the Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa.
  3. a southern African tree, Curtisia dentata, of the dogwood family, from whose wood such spears are made.

verb (used with object)

  1. to pierce with an assegai.

Origin of assagai

1615-25; earlier azagaia Portuguese Arabic az zaghāyah, equivalent to al the + Berber zaghāyah assegai

Examples for assagai

A third ran forward while Pringle was loading and threw an assagai at him.

He urged his horse to greater exertion, and kept stabbing at his pursuer with an assagai.

The young Prince Napoleon, whose dreadful death the reader may recall, was slain by an assagai.

Mr Pringle had just fired his rifle, and was reloading when the assagai struck him.

His Bootchuana companion at that time threw his assagai, which entered the lion's back.

Opposition was offered, and the officer in command wounded with an assagai.

I shouted, and, shield and assagai in hand, the black dashed to my side as if to defend me from some attack.

Jerry referred to a wound which an assagai aimed at his heart had that day inflicted on his nose.

I whispered, turning to him where he squatted with assagai in hand and his shield spread across his knees.

Word Value for assagai
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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