Definitions for assagais

assagais as·sa·gai

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

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

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in assagais (aaagisss).

Definitions for assagais

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 assagais

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

Examples for assagais

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for assagais
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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