- a variation of saber.
sabre
Americannoun
noun
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a stout single-edged cavalry sword, having a curved blade
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a sword used in fencing, having a narrow V-shaped blade, a semicircular guard, and a slightly curved hand
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a cavalry soldier
verb
Etymology
Origin of sabre
C17: via French from German (dialect) Sabel, from Middle High German sebel, perhaps from Magyar száblya; compare Russian sablya sabre
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Two types of weapons were likely used, probably a sabre and a longsword.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2025
Regardless, the statement amounted to unusual nuclear sabre rattling.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
"The only feline species that was threatened at this level was the sabre tooth tiger thousands of years ago."
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025
For many years, he has been among the best in the Americas in foil and sabre.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
With a sabre cut, I suppose, and a bandage around his head.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
This letter will explain how, in Thebais, Some discontents required the sabred hand Of Abulkassen.
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
She faced death, as women mostly do, bravely and even gayly, racked slowly to unconsciousness but yielding only to violence, as a soldier sabred in battle.
From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker
There's a splendid fellow here, a Pole, called Koratinsky; he commanded the cavalry at Ostrolenca, and, it is said, rode down the Russian Guard, and sabred the Imperial Cuirassiers to a man.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
The Russian hussars of Ysum were sabred and overthrown at Kelm.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de
On either side of the door stood a soldier in Cossack uniform, huge fellows, sabred, with their helmets belted under their chins, and their fierce, black eyes staring straight ahead, scarcely blinking.
From The Black Cross by Briggs, Olive M.
Half a dozen huzzaing and sabring troopers saw the three and shouted to others nearer yet.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
Page 453, line 40, read "sabring" for "sobering."
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus
If I were to march into Moldavia," a Rumanian was telling me, "against the enemies of Austria, I would have to begin by sabring all the Moldavian peasants, who are crying, 'Down with Austria!'
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
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