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assegai
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Definition:a long wooden South African spear with an iron tip.
photo: Von Chetwyn L (Lt), War Office official photographer, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24396090
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Native mats covered the clay walls; a collection of spears, assegais, shields, knives was hung up in trophies.
Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness
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A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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