What's the difference between assagai and assegai?

Assagai


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Assegai

Example Sentences:

Assegai


Definition:

  • (n.) A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.
  • (n.) Same as Assagai.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Oxford dons did more in a practical way to people the empire with good chaps who knew how to face down a fellow with an assegai or kukri in his hand.
  • (2) "Without a word he took my foreskin, pulled it forward and then, in a single motion, brought down his assegai .
  • (3) "Without a word, he took my foreskin, pulled it forward, and then, in a single motion, brought down his assegai," he writes.
  • (4) The ingcici , the man making the cut, used an assegai (fighting spear) for the operation.

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