assegai

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

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

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

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

Some of them even may be seen snapping off their assegais in preparation for a charge.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

Then he asked, quietly and respectfully enough, where the assegais came from.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

There was quite a collection of strangely shaped knives and assegais.

From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

I’ll help you up first and hand you the gun and assegais; then you can haul me after you.

From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by J. Percy-Groves

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