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assegaai

assegaai is the alternative form of assegai.

Meaning of assegai

Noun

assegai (plural assegais)

  1. A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.
    • But now the Moormen, stalking o'er the strand / to guard the wat'ery stores the strangers need; / this, targe on arm and assegai in hand, / that, with his bended bow, and venom'd reed[.]1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 33
  2. The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais.
    • In the clearing, built around the base of an assegai tree, stood a hut, plastered in cow dung.2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 236

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Forms of assegaai

pluralassegaais

Questions about assegaai

What is assegaai the alternative form of?
Assegaai is the alternative form of assegai.

Words near assegaai in the dictionary

  1. assecutions
  2. assed
  3. assed out
  4. Assefa
  5. Assefas
  6. assegaai
  7. assegaais
  8. assegai
  9. assegaied
  10. assegaiing
  11. assegais

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