Assegai

But now the Moormen, stalking o'er the strand / to guard the wat'ery stores the strangers need; / this, targe on arm and assegai in hand, / that, with his bended bow, and venom'd reed[.]

My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.

Native mats covered the clay walls; a collection of spears, assegais, shields, knives was hung up in trophies.

A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns.

Without a word, he took my foreskin, pulled it forward, and then, in a single motion, brought down his assegai.

In the clearing, built around the base of an assegai tree, stood a hut, plastered in cow dung.