Wooden African javelin pointed with iron or fire-hardened tip
This article is about the type of spear. For other uses, see Assegai (disambiguation).
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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.
^The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin: 2009. (TheFreeDictionary.com)
^"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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