Assegai

This article is about the type of spear. For other uses, see Assegai (disambiguation).
An askari guard at an Allied air training school at AFB Waterkloof, Pretoria, South Africa, January 1943

An assegai or assagai[a][2] is a polearm used for throwing, usually a light spear or javelin made up of a wooden handle with an iron tip.

  1. ^ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin: 2009. (TheFreeDictionary.com)
  2. ^ "assegai | Definition of assegai in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-28.


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