Definition of assegai in English:

assegai

(also assagai)

nounPlural assegaisˈasəɡʌɪˈæsəˌɡaɪ

1A slender, iron-tipped, hardwood spear used chiefly by southern African peoples.
（主要为南非部落用的）长矛，标枪
Example sentencesExamples
- It had an effect just like the longbow at Agincourt - and the Gatling gun, which eventually defeated the Zulus with their assegais.
- They carried no javelins, only the largest assegai.
- By the 1870s, mounted cavalry with muzzle-loaders, even breech-loaders, rather than foot soldiers with shields and assegais, were the spearhead of a number of surviving African armies.
- A police presence has been established to stabilise the area after 171 men were arrested and rifles, sidearms, ammunition, assegais and pangas seized.
- A large cache of weapons, including assegais, pangas, and axes, was confiscated, most of which were concealed in nearby forests.
- The irreplaceable steel-bladed assegai were saved for close-in work.
- Painted in pink, with black and white drawings of Zulu shields and assegais and cast-iron three-legged pots on the walls, the conference building can hold up to 500 people.
- Inside the village, park visitors could divide their attention, and their spare change, between a fortune-telling ‘bone thrower’ and a neutered ‘warrior,’ harmlessly gyrating with his assegai and shield.
- Traditional surgeons such as Ntsasa are invited to workshops to teach them how to sterilise assegais and prevent the spread of HIV-Aids or other diseases.
- He was presented with a traditional shield, assegai and a framed picture of African heritage.
- Police recovered five rifles, 18 sidearms, 84 bullets, and 700 assegais in follow-up house-to-house searches.
- Their assailants were armed with knobkierries, assegais and machetes.
- They can inherit anything from as little as an assegai to as much as a few beasts.
- Ordinarily he would be pinned to a banyan tree with an assagai before he'd read sports pages.
- There're a lot of interesting things to buy: tyre sandals, walking sticks, assegais, knobkerries, bead necklaces, Zulu pots and drums.
2A South African tree of the dogwood family, which yields hard timber.
山茱萸树
Curtisia dentata, family Cornaceae
Example sentencesExamples
- They surveyed the forest and studied the trees, identifying yellow wood, stinkwood, assegai wood, pear, alder and half a dozen other varieties.
- Other common trees of the forests read like nature's picnic basket: wild pear, wild peach, African holly, assegai wood, forest olive or ironwood, white stinkwood… the list goes on.

verbassegais, assegaing, assegaiedˈasəɡʌɪˈæsəˌɡaɪ

[with object]

Wound or kill with an assegai.
he was a very brave man but he was eventually assegaied
Example sentencesExamples
- I found there a man in a red coat badly assegaied in the arm, unable to move.
- I could of course make no answer to this, so he sent men who clubbed or assegaied four of the culprits, but two escaped.
- One determined Zulu even jumped over the barricade and assegaied a disoriented patient to death, though he himself was quickly picked off by a British rifleman.
- Many of the soldiers indeed were assegaied before they could leave their tents, most were slaughtered at once, but a few managed to swim across the river.
- We retired well, but I shall never forget the Kaffirs getting in amongst us and assegaing our poor fellows.

Origin

Early 17th century: from obsolete French azagaie or Portuguese azagaia, from Arabic az-zaġāyah, from az, al 'the' + Berber zaġāyah 'spear'.

Definition of assegai in US English:

assegai

(also assagai)

nounˈasəˌɡīˈæsəˌɡaɪ

1A slender, iron-tipped, hardwood spear used chiefly by southern African peoples.
（主要为南非部落用的）长矛，标枪
Example sentencesExamples
- Inside the village, park visitors could divide their attention, and their spare change, between a fortune-telling ‘bone thrower’ and a neutered ‘warrior,’ harmlessly gyrating with his assegai and shield.
- It had an effect just like the longbow at Agincourt - and the Gatling gun, which eventually defeated the Zulus with their assegais.
- There're a lot of interesting things to buy: tyre sandals, walking sticks, assegais, knobkerries, bead necklaces, Zulu pots and drums.
- By the 1870s, mounted cavalry with muzzle-loaders, even breech-loaders, rather than foot soldiers with shields and assegais, were the spearhead of a number of surviving African armies.
- They carried no javelins, only the largest assegai.
- He was presented with a traditional shield, assegai and a framed picture of African heritage.
- A police presence has been established to stabilise the area after 171 men were arrested and rifles, sidearms, ammunition, assegais and pangas seized.
- The irreplaceable steel-bladed assegai were saved for close-in work.
- Police recovered five rifles, 18 sidearms, 84 bullets, and 700 assegais in follow-up house-to-house searches.
- Traditional surgeons such as Ntsasa are invited to workshops to teach them how to sterilise assegais and prevent the spread of HIV-Aids or other diseases.
- They can inherit anything from as little as an assegai to as much as a few beasts.
- A large cache of weapons, including assegais, pangas, and axes, was confiscated, most of which were concealed in nearby forests.
- Painted in pink, with black and white drawings of Zulu shields and assegais and cast-iron three-legged pots on the walls, the conference building can hold up to 500 people.
- Their assailants were armed with knobkierries, assegais and machetes.
- Ordinarily he would be pinned to a banyan tree with an assagai before he'd read sports pages.
2A South African tree of the dogwood family, which yields hard timber.
山茱萸树
Curtisia dentata, family Cornaceae
Example sentencesExamples
- Other common trees of the forests read like nature's picnic basket: wild pear, wild peach, African holly, assegai wood, forest olive or ironwood, white stinkwood… the list goes on.
- They surveyed the forest and studied the trees, identifying yellow wood, stinkwood, assegai wood, pear, alder and half a dozen other varieties.

verbˈasəˌɡīˈæsəˌɡaɪ

[with object]

Wound or kill with an assegai.
he was a very brave man but he was eventually assegaied
Example sentencesExamples
- We retired well, but I shall never forget the Kaffirs getting in amongst us and assegaing our poor fellows.
- One determined Zulu even jumped over the barricade and assegaied a disoriented patient to death, though he himself was quickly picked off by a British rifleman.
- I could of course make no answer to this, so he sent men who clubbed or assegaied four of the culprits, but two escaped.
- I found there a man in a red coat badly assegaied in the arm, unable to move.
- Many of the soldiers indeed were assegaied before they could leave their tents, most were slaughtered at once, but a few managed to swim across the river.

Origin

Early 17th century: from obsolete French azagaie or Portuguese azagaia, from Arabic az-zaġāyah, from az, al ‘the’ + Berber zaġāyah ‘spear’.

词汇	assegai
释义	Definition of assegai in English: assegai (also assagai) nounPlural assegaisˈasəɡʌɪˈæsəˌɡaɪ 1A slender, iron-tipped, hardwood spear used chiefly by southern African peoples. （主要为南非部落用的）长矛，标枪 Example sentencesExamples It had an effect just like the longbow at Agincourt - and the Gatling gun, which eventually defeated the Zulus with their assegais. They carried no javelins, only the largest assegai. By the 1870s, mounted cavalry with muzzle-loaders, even breech-loaders, rather than foot soldiers with shields and assegais, were the spearhead of a number of surviving African armies. A police presence has been established to stabilise the area after 171 men were arrested and rifles, sidearms, ammunition, assegais and pangas seized. A large cache of weapons, including assegais, pangas, and axes, was confiscated, most of which were concealed in nearby forests. The irreplaceable steel-bladed assegai were saved for close-in work. Painted in pink, with black and white drawings of Zulu shields and assegais and cast-iron three-legged pots on the walls, the conference building can hold up to 500 people. Inside the village, park visitors could divide their attention, and their spare change, between a fortune-telling ‘bone thrower’ and a neutered ‘warrior,’ harmlessly gyrating with his assegai and shield. Traditional surgeons such as Ntsasa are invited to workshops to teach them how to sterilise assegais and prevent the spread of HIV-Aids or other diseases. He was presented with a traditional shield, assegai and a framed picture of African heritage. Police recovered five rifles, 18 sidearms, 84 bullets, and 700 assegais in follow-up house-to-house searches. Their assailants were armed with knobkierries, assegais and machetes. They can inherit anything from as little as an assegai to as much as a few beasts. Ordinarily he would be pinned to a banyan tree with an assagai before he'd read sports pages. There're a lot of interesting things to buy: tyre sandals, walking sticks, assegais, knobkerries, bead necklaces, Zulu pots and drums. 2A South African tree of the dogwood family, which yields hard timber. 山茱萸树 Curtisia dentata, family Cornaceae Example sentencesExamples They surveyed the forest and studied the trees, identifying yellow wood, stinkwood, assegai wood, pear, alder and half a dozen other varieties. Other common trees of the forests read like nature's picnic basket: wild pear, wild peach, African holly, assegai wood, forest olive or ironwood, white stinkwood… the list goes on. verbassegais, assegaing, assegaiedˈasəɡʌɪˈæsəˌɡaɪ [with object] Wound or kill with an assegai. he was a very brave man but he was eventually assegaied Example sentencesExamples I found there a man in a red coat badly assegaied in the arm, unable to move. I could of course make no answer to this, so he sent men who clubbed or assegaied four of the culprits, but two escaped. One determined Zulu even jumped over the barricade and assegaied a disoriented patient to death, though he himself was quickly picked off by a British rifleman. Many of the soldiers indeed were assegaied before they could leave their tents, most were slaughtered at once, but a few managed to swim across the river. We retired well, but I shall never forget the Kaffirs getting in amongst us and assegaing our poor fellows. Origin Early 17th century: from obsolete French azagaie or Portuguese azagaia, from Arabic az-zaġāyah, from az, al 'the' + Berber zaġāyah 'spear'. Definition of assegai in US English: assegai (also assagai) nounˈasəˌɡīˈæsəˌɡaɪ 1A slender, iron-tipped, hardwood spear used chiefly by southern African peoples. （主要为南非部落用的）长矛，标枪 Example sentencesExamples Inside the village, park visitors could divide their attention, and their spare change, between a fortune-telling ‘bone thrower’ and a neutered ‘warrior,’ harmlessly gyrating with his assegai and shield. It had an effect just like the longbow at Agincourt - and the Gatling gun, which eventually defeated the Zulus with their assegais. There're a lot of interesting things to buy: tyre sandals, walking sticks, assegais, knobkerries, bead necklaces, Zulu pots and drums. By the 1870s, mounted cavalry with muzzle-loaders, even breech-loaders, rather than foot soldiers with shields and assegais, were the spearhead of a number of surviving African armies. They carried no javelins, only the largest assegai. He was presented with a traditional shield, assegai and a framed picture of African heritage. A police presence has been established to stabilise the area after 171 men were arrested and rifles, sidearms, ammunition, assegais and pangas seized. The irreplaceable steel-bladed assegai were saved for close-in work. Police recovered five rifles, 18 sidearms, 84 bullets, and 700 assegais in follow-up house-to-house searches. Traditional surgeons such as Ntsasa are invited to workshops to teach them how to sterilise assegais and prevent the spread of HIV-Aids or other diseases. They can inherit anything from as little as an assegai to as much as a few beasts. A large cache of weapons, including assegais, pangas, and axes, was confiscated, most of which were concealed in nearby forests. Painted in pink, with black and white drawings of Zulu shields and assegais and cast-iron three-legged pots on the walls, the conference building can hold up to 500 people. Their assailants were armed with knobkierries, assegais and machetes. Ordinarily he would be pinned to a banyan tree with an assagai before he'd read sports pages. 2A South African tree of the dogwood family, which yields hard timber. 山茱萸树 Curtisia dentata, family Cornaceae Example sentencesExamples Other common trees of the forests read like nature's picnic basket: wild pear, wild peach, African holly, assegai wood, forest olive or ironwood, white stinkwood… the list goes on. They surveyed the forest and studied the trees, identifying yellow wood, stinkwood, assegai wood, pear, alder and half a dozen other varieties. verbˈasəˌɡīˈæsəˌɡaɪ [with object] Wound or kill with an assegai. he was a very brave man but he was eventually assegaied Example sentencesExamples We retired well, but I shall never forget the Kaffirs getting in amongst us and assegaing our poor fellows. One determined Zulu even jumped over the barricade and assegaied a disoriented patient to death, though he himself was quickly picked off by a British rifleman. I could of course make no answer to this, so he sent men who clubbed or assegaied four of the culprits, but two escaped. I found there a man in a red coat badly assegaied in the arm, unable to move. Many of the soldiers indeed were assegaied before they could leave their tents, most were slaughtered at once, but a few managed to swim across the river. Origin Early 17th century: from obsolete French azagaie or Portuguese azagaia, from Arabic az-zaġāyah, from az, al ‘the’ + Berber zaġāyah ‘spear’.
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