sabot
Americannoun
plural
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a shoe made of a single block of wood hollowed out, worn especially by farmers and workers in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, etc.
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a shoe with a thick wooden sole and sides and a top of coarse leather.
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Military.
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a wooden or metal disk formerly attached to a projectile in a muzzleloading cannon.
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a soft metal ring at the base of a projectile that makes the projectile conform to the rifling grooves of a gun.
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noun
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a shoe made from a single block of wood
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a shoe with a wooden sole and a leather or cloth upper
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a lightweight sleeve in which a subcalibre round is enclosed in order to make it fit the rifling of a firearm. After firing the sabot drops away
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a small sailing boat with a shortened bow
Other Word Forms
- saboted adjective
Etymology
Origin of sabot
1600–10; < French, Old French çabot, blend of savate old shoe (of uncertain origin; akin to Old Provençal sabata, Italian ciabatta, Spanish zapato ) and bot boot 1
Example Sentences
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Sabo, who uses a pseudonym derived from a tank munition called sabot, is selling prints of the poster for $25 on his website.
From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2017
Sabo – a pseudonym derived from a tank munition called sabot – made his breakthrough in the GOP primaries with a poster of Ted Cruz as a tattooed, muscled convict.
From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2017
"Is a shoe-throwing journalist who tries to undermine authority a sabot auteur or a saboteur?"
From Slate • May 9, 2013
For those reasons, full-bore slugs continue to outsell slimmer, faster, flatter shooting, much costlier premium sabot slugs by a very broad margin.
From Time Magazine Archive
As to the sabot, above mentioned, it is a kind of herbage, which covers the beds of the valleys in this region of primitive rock: it forms the principal food of our camels.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
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