sabre
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How to use sabre in a sentence
One party shall provide a surgeon, the other a pair of ordinary cavalry sabres.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsThen the general started out to secure the longest and heaviest pair of cavalry sabres he could find in Rome.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsBut a column of men in blue, with gleaming sabres, dashed down the road into the village.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.But thus denouncing men as criminals who fled for safety from the sabres of assassins, was adding oil to the fire of persecution.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John FoxeIt was amid shots falling like hail in every direction, and menaced by killing blows from heavy sabres that the retreat was made.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge Hemyng
British Dictionary definitions for sabre
US saber
/ (ˈseɪbə) /
a stout single-edged cavalry sword, having a curved blade
a sword used in fencing, having a narrow V-shaped blade, a semicircular guard, and a slightly curved hand
a cavalry soldier
(tr) to injure or kill with a sabre
Origin of sabre
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