Definitions for assegai

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assegai as·se·gai

Spelling: [as-uh-gahy]

IPA: /ˈæs əˌgaɪ/

Assegai 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 85 anagrams from letters in assegai (aaegiss).

Definitions for assegai

noun

1. the slender javelin or spear of the Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa.
2. 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 assegai

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

Examples for assegai

Umgolo sprang forward and plunged his assegai into its breast.

Ronald lifted her down, and then pulled the assegai from the horse's back.

An assegai or two would have answered all purposes there on the spot.

The Bushman hesitated, but finally lowered his assegai and accepted the gift.

Then one of them lifted his assegai and drove it through his breast.

Then the guns were to be thrown down and we must charge with the assegai.

However, dismounting, the men kicked his assegai out of his reach.

The assegai and the raid were to them still the heart of life.

Suddenly, without a sound, Bombyane shook his assegai and rushed straight at me.

If I hurl my assegai at another, another hurls his assegai at me, and in a measure we are quits.