assegai

Example Sentences

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They have brought with them a traditional Zulu assegai spear and a British boot plate, which was found on the battlefield, for the museum.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2015

The 19th century Zulu King Shaka adapted this long spear into a broad sword, the stabbing assegai.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old man was a famous ingcibi, a circumcision expert, from Gcalekaland, who would use his assegai to change us from boys to men with a single blow.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Yengwa draped himself with a blanket, rolled up a newspaper to imitate an assegai, and began to stride back and forth reciting the lines from the praise song.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

After a minute, he stopped walking, faced us, and, newly energized, exclaimed that this incident — the assegai striking the wire — symbolized the clash between the culture of Africa and that of Europe.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela