- 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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Regardless, the statement amounted to unusual nuclear sabre rattling.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
Then again his sabre rattling in the past hasn’t come to much, so perhaps it wouldn’t again?
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
"Unlocking the secrets of sabre tooth evolution not only enriches our understanding of the Earth's past, but also documents the mechanisms leading to evolutionary convergence," says Professor Valentin Fischer, Director of the EDDyLab at ULiège.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024
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
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 Albert Parker Fitch
It was a phrase that sabred the spider-webs of logical refinement, and held them up scornfully on the point.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
Many more than a hundred sabred gentlemen pressed round to "do themselves the honor," as they expressed it, of paying Cunningham a compliment.
From Rung Ho! by Talbot Mundy
Only at long intervals was the silence broken by the return of a plumed and sabred general, his father, from the wars.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
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 Charles James Lever
Page 453, line 40, read "sabring" for "sobering."
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
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
Half a dozen huzzaing and sabring troopers saw the three and shouted to others nearer yet.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
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