assegai
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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
At one point, he raised his assegai into the air for emphasis and accidentally hit the curtain wire above him, which made a sharp noise and caused the curtain to sway.
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
Stamping their feet, beating on their shields with their assegais and roaring the war cry usutu!, the warrior impis, arrayed like the right and left horns of the buffalo, would begin encircling the foe.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are armed with assegais and long hunting-swords like the old German swords.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
In his hand he held a couple of kerries made of heavy iron-wood; one of his companions was similarly armed, while the third carried a bundle of assegais.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
The leading man at once stepped forward, the others following, and in a few moments six stalwart natives, armed with assegais and shields, were looking curiously at the small party of whites.
From The Golden Rock by Ernest Glanville
In front of it stood six witch-doctors with assegais drawn back, ready to strike!
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil
We should be assegaied in a moment if we were to go down; let’s go back to our old look-out.”
From The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars by G.A. Henty
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