sabot
Americannoun
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sabots
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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
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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
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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
There was no throwing of monkey wrenches or the traditional sabot into costly and useful machines.
From Time Magazine Archive
These last had grown weary of laughing contemptuously at the "Baleine"; a sabot, they said, which would disappear some fine day under the billows like a handful of mud.
From The Fête At Coqueville 1907 by L. G. Meyer
Their feet are shod in clogs, sabots, backless loafers, espadrilles with crushable heels and various other iterations of shoes with a covered toe and open back.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
If Jacques were around today—he popped his sabots in 1982—he would choke on his croque monsieur.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2013
Their wooden sabots clacked in joyous folk dances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Wynaendts-Francken of Holland, relative of Edward Bok, went about in the mud wearing sabots.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Brittany he painted the walls and windows of the inn where he lived; he made furniture, carved and ornamented a pair of wooden sabots for himself, worked at bas-reliefs, decorated pottery.
From Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by John Gould Fletcher
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