sabre

[ sey-ber ]
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noun, verb (used with object),sa·bred, sa·bring.Chiefly British.

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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.

  • Then the general started out to secure the longest and heaviest pair of cavalry sabres he could find in Rome.

  • But a column of men in blue, with gleaming sabres, dashed down the road into the village.

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  • But thus denouncing men as criminals who fled for safety from the sabres of assassins, was adding oil to the fire of persecution.

  • It was amid shots falling like hail in every direction, and menaced by killing blows from heavy sabres that the retreat was made.

British Dictionary definitions for sabre

sabre

US saber

/ (ˈseɪbə) /


noun
  1. a stout single-edged cavalry sword, having a curved blade

  2. a sword used in fencing, having a narrow V-shaped blade, a semicircular guard, and a slightly curved hand

  1. a cavalry soldier

verb
  1. (tr) to injure or kill with a sabre

Origin of sabre

1
C17: via French from German (dialect) Sabel, from Middle High German sebel, perhaps from Magyar száblya; compare Russian sablya sabre

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