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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ASSAGAI; ASSEGAI

As "sa *gai, As "se *gai, n. Etym: [Pg. azagaia, Sp. azagaya, fr. a Berber word. Cf. Lancegay.]

 

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

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

assagai

as sa gai |ˈæsəˌɡaɪ | ▶noun & verb variant spelling of assegai.

 

Oxford Dictionary

assagai

as ¦sa |gai ▶noun & verb variant spelling of assegai.

 

Duden Dictionary

Assagai

As sa gai Substantiv, maskulin , der |Assag ai |der Assagai; Genitiv: des Assagai [s ], Plural Assagais und Assagaie berberisch-arabisch-spanisch-französisch -englisch Wurfspieß eines Bantustammes im südlichen Afrika