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as⋅sa⋅gai

   [as-uh-gahy]
noun, plural -gais, verb (used with object), -gaied, -gai⋅ing.
assegai.
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as·sa·gai     (ās'ə-gī')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Variant of assegai.
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as·se·gai or as·sa·gai     (ās'ə-gī')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A light spear or lance, especially one with a short shaft and long blade for close combat, used by Bantu peoples of southern Africa.
  2. A southern African tree (Curtisia dentata) having wood used for making spears or lances.

[Obsolete French azagaie, probably from Old Spanish azagayah, from Arabic az-zaġāya : al-, the + Berber zaġāya, spear.]
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assagai

noun
the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa [syn: assegai] 

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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.

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