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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of assegai.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A slender spear or lance of hard wood, usually having an iron head: now most commonly applied to the throwing-spear or javelin used in battle by the natives of South Africa, especially the Zulus and Kafirs. Also spelled assegai.
  2. To strike or kill with an assagai. Also spelled assegai.

Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative spelling of assegai.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa

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  • sionnach gavagai. Jan 18, 2009

  • hernesheir (n): apparently a borrowing from Berber: Fr. azagaye from Arabic azzagai, from al + the Berber zaghayah; a South African tree of the dogwood family (I'll have to confirm this) from which a slender iron-tipped spear is made. Jan 17, 2009

  • vanishedone The OED favours this spelling over assegai, but I get the impression the latter is more widely used. Jun 14, 2008

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