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Definition of Assegaied
1. assegai [v] - See also: assegai
Literary usage of Assegaied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kafirland: A Ten Months' Campaign by Frank Newton Streatfeild (1879)
"assegaied sucking-pig for dinner—March to Impetu— Belief of Fort Warwick—Burning
fort, and return to ..."
2. Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville (1897)
"The Kaffirs, they jes' grabbed the poor Johnny by the belt, pulled him outer the
thick of the jam, and then assegaied him. I seed how things would go if the ..."
3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1901)
"We have been mobbed and assegaied right and left.' Yet Lord Salisbury was not at
ease ; ' the other night when he came down to explain in dulcet tones the ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1879)
"... The white men were nearly all assegaied, few being shot They never moved from
where they stood. but stayed there to die : they did not even turn their ..."
5. Review of Reviews by Albert Shaw (1897)
"... then scrambled up himself and set the chestnut a-going after the other horsemen;
another moment's delay and both must have been assegaied. ..."
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