assegai

Các nghĩa

1. giáo gỗ cứng mũi sắt (của người Bantu ở Nam Phi)

   A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.

   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.

2. cây assegai (Curtisia dentata), gỗ dùng làm giáo

   The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais.

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

Dạng khác

• assegais plural