Definitions for assegais

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assegais as·se·gai

Spelling: [as-uh-gahy]

IPA: /ˈæs əˌgaɪ/

Assegais 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 90 anagrams from letters in assegais (aaegisss).

Definitions for assegais

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 assegais

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

Examples for assegais

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Umgolo sprang forward and plunged his assegai into its breast.

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