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sable antelope |
sable brush |
sable coat |
sable's hair pencil |
sabot
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| saboteur
| sabotière
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sabot
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sabot has 2 senses
- sabot(n = noun.artifact) wooden shoe - a shoe carved from a single block of wood; Array is a kind of shoe
- sabot(n = noun.artifact) clog, geta, patten - footwear usually with wooden soles; Array is a kind of footgear, footwear
CIDE DICTIONARY
sabot, n. [F.].
- A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries. [1913 Webster]
- A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sabot, n.
1 a kind of simple shoe hollowed out from a block of wood.
2 a wooden-soled shoe.
3 Austral. a small snub-nosed yacht.
1 a kind of simple shoe hollowed out from a block of wood.
2 a wooden-soled shoe.
3 Austral. a small snub-nosed yacht.
Derivative
saboted adj.
Etymology
F, blend of savate shoe + botte boot
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