Meanings of assagai in anglès

Opposition was offered, and the officer in command wounded with an assagai.

The savage was in the act of hurling another assagai.

A third ran forward while Pringle was loading and threw an assagai at him.

The shield and assagai are not, however, done away with.

The bow, arrows, assagai, and clubs of the deceased are hung on the same post.

You might as well teach a Zulu lace-work, instead of the use of the assagai.

Mr Pringle had just fired his rifle, and was reloading when the assagai struck him.

The hand grasped a light assagai, or darting spear.

The young Prince Napoleon, whose dreadful death the reader may recall, was slain by an assagai.

He urged his horse to greater exertion, and kept stabbing at his pursuer with an assagai.

Below the guns was a beautiful Zulu assagai, a warrior's spear, complete with lion hide bindings.

Jerry referred to a wound which an assagai aimed at his heart had that day inflicted on his nose.

Opening his eyes again, he beheld a sturdy Bushman gazing at him in open-mouthed surprise, with an uplifted assagai in his hand.

Tribal masks, shields, and assagai spears added just enough of a primitive edge to place the room in South Africa instead of Surrey.

They had proceeded thus in opposite directions some distance when Southey was startled by an assagai striking the cliff on which he was climbing.

At all events, when he ceased to pray, and opened his eyes, the Bushman shut his mouth, and poised his assagai in a threatening manner.