assegai
- n the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa
- In the heat of the moment the father grabbed an assegai and hurled it.
- With no clients to bag there, Hunter Stevenson fearlessly seized an assegai (a Zulu javelin) and shield, easily held a snarling (stuffed) lion at bay, all the while kept his own .
- With its upper half locked in the vise of militant black Africa, and the newly independent nation of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) jutting like an assegai into its heart .