assegais's Usage Examples:

"cattle as moving shields, hiding behind them, and accurately throwing assegais and stones at the Portuguese.

a military trophy consisting of a Zulu ox-hide shield and four crossed assegais.

Above the staff are two assegais-local spears, a Swazi fighting stick and three royal Swazi ornamental tassels.

Its primary function was to deflect spears, assegais or Khoisan arrows, but they were also carried during lion or leopard hunts.

They often carried assegais and shields, and also a quagga-tail switch, the symbol of their profession.

military trophy, consisting of a Zulu ox-hide shield and four crossed assegais.

ten NNC troopers were issued rifles; the rest made do with traditional assegais and cowhide shields.

the defenders' Martini–Henry rifles, slashing at British soldiers with assegais or firing their weapons through the wall.

roundels with three small assegais in black and white superimposed on the red center and type A fin flashes.

These assegais represented the three territories.

Weapons and bandoliers used by Frederick Russell Burnham during the Second Matabele War mingle with assegais and a tribal shield.

also has an excellent collection of pictures, paintings, dioramas, drums, assegais, ammunition, buttons, badges and uniforms.

Army recruits were armed with assegais and knobkerries.

The wood, hard and heavy, has traditionally been used for assegais and fishing rods.

designed to represent the head ring and plumes of the Swazi King upon crossed assegais.

soldiers opened fire with machine guns and cannon, on rebels equipped mostly assegais (spears), knobkerries (fighting sticks) and cowhide shields.

disciplined force by pre-colonial African standards, and were equipped with both assegais and Martini Henry rifles, but the British pioneers' Maxim guns, which had.

ordered him to bring on deck some assegais (a type of African spear) and some swords for the Malagasy to clean.

The assegais had been acquired on Madagascar.

his followers became very excited and rushed around with their guns and assegais.

Synonyms:

assegai; lance; spear; shaft;

Antonyms:

close; stay in place;