Crossword clues for assegai
assegai
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assagai \As"sa*gai\, Assegai \As"se*gai\, n. [Pg. azagaia, Sp. azagaya, fr. a Berber word. Cf. Lancegay.] A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin. [1913 Webster] ||
Assegai \As"se*gai\, n. Same as Assagai.
Wiktionary
n. A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Afric
v
To spear with an assegai.
WordNet
n. the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa [syn: assagai]
Wikipedia
Assegai is Wilbur Smith's thirty-second novel, it follows The Triumph of the Sun in which the author brought the Courtney and Ballantyne series together. Assegai tells the story of Leon Courtney (son the Ryder Courtney) and is set in 1906 in Kenya. The events in the story are linked to and precede the outbreak of World War One.
Usage examples of "assegai".
Just as we were starting on again the voortrekker, whom I had set to watch at a little distance, ran up with his eyes bulging out of his head, and reported that he had seen a Basuto with an assegai hanging about in the bush, as though to keep touch with us, after which we delayed no more.
I think, too, there were some innocent bags full of beads and a few packages of Birmingham-made assegai blades.
Yet there was one who made the Zulu people out of nothing, as a potter fashions a vessel from clay, as a smith fashions an assegai out of the ore of the hills, yes, and tempers it with human blood.
King, it is well known that the Black One who went before you had a certain little assegai handled with the royal red wood, which drank the blood of many.
It was with this assegai that Mopo his servant, who vanished from the land after the death of Dingaan, let out the life of the Black One at the kraal Duguza, but what became of it afterwards none have heard for certain.
Cetewayo looked at the assegai, looked at the blood trickling from his knee, looked at the faces of the councillors.
I remained for a moment, making pretence to examine the blade of the little assegai that had been thrown by the figure on the rock, which I had picked from the ground.
To escape, of which of course I had thought at once, was impossible since it meant an assegai in my ribs.
Presently I heard a discreet tapping on the doorboard of the hut which I at once removed, wriggling swiftly through the hole, careless in my misery as to whether I met an assegai the other side of it or not.
But then how about the assegai that Nomkubulwana, or rather her effigy, had seemed to hold and throw, whereof the blade was at present in my saddle-bag.
When we were as I judged out of assegai shot, I turned, with the water up to my armpits, and shouted some valedictory words.
I found an assegai, cleaned it in the ground which it needed, and opening one of the tins, lay down in a tuft of grass by a dead man, or rather between him and some Zulus whom he had killed, and devoured its contents.
There you will take your stand, holding in your right hand a little assegai which will be given to you.
Hearing him from under my kaross I bethought me that he had really grown old at last, who for the moment evidently forgot the part which this very assegai had played a few months before in the Vale of Bones.
Mopo the murderer, he who vanished from the land after the death of my uncle Dingaan, gave you the little red assegai, did he, Opener of Roads!