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sabre

American  
[sey-ber] / ˈseɪ bər /

noun

Chiefly British.
sabred, sabring

  1. saber.

sabre British  
/ 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

  3. a cavalry soldier

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verb

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

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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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Example Sentences

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France has already returned some of the Abomey royal treasures to Benin and a historic sabre to Senegal.‎

From BBC

The stairway of flashing sabres or the man-eating-snake-infested pool that stank like garbage.

From Literature

In it, a French geologist mentioned a single sabre shaped fossil tooth resembling those of the massive predator Carcharodontosaurus, originally found in Egypt's Western Desert in the early 1900s.

From Science Daily

Two types of weapons were likely used, probably a sabre and a longsword.

From Science Daily

Regardless, the statement amounted to unusual nuclear sabre rattling.

From Barron's

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