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

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

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

There I found my companions surrounded by a full impi of warriors who had hemmed them in with their assegais.

From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil

Collect a good lot of assegais and other useful props.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 by Various

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

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

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