sabot

[ sab-oh; French sa-boh ]
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noun,plural sab·ots [sab-ohz; French sa-boh]. /ˈsæb oʊz; French saˈboʊ/.
  1. a shoe made of a single block of wood hollowed out, worn especially by farmers and workers in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, etc.

  2. a shoe with a thick wooden sole and sides and a top of coarse leather.

  1. Military.

    • a wooden or metal disk formerly attached to a projectile in a muzzleloading cannon.

    • a soft metal ring at the base of a projectile that makes the projectile conform to the rifling grooves of a gun.

Origin of sabot

1
1600–10; <French, Old French çabot, blend of savate old shoe (of uncertain origin; akin to Old Provençal sabata,Italian ciabatta,Spanish zapato) and botboot1

Other words from sabot

  • sa·boted [sa-bohd, sab-ohd], /sæˈboʊd, ˈsæb oʊd/, adjective

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How to use sabot in a sentence

  • Picturesque groups of saboted fisherwomen cluster round a skiff as the gleaming fish are unloaded.

  • The capped and saboted peasant women who waited on us were not more simple in their ways.

    The Ways of Men | Eliot Gregory

British Dictionary definitions for sabot

sabot

/ (ˈsæbəʊ, French sabo) /


noun
  1. a shoe made from a single block of wood

  2. a shoe with a wooden sole and a leather or cloth upper

  1. 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

  2. Australian a small sailing boat with a shortened bow

Origin of sabot

1
C17: from French, probably from Old French savate an old shoe, also influenced by bot boot 1; related to Italian ciabatta old shoe, Old Provençal sabata

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