单词 | sabot |
释义 | sabotn. 1. a. A wooden shoe made of a single piece of wood shaped and hollowed out to fit the foot. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > made from specific material > wood sabot1607 wooden shoe1607 racket1846 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 299 Woodden shoes properly called sabots. 1673 C. Hatton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 118 A sabot having a great bracelet of beades passed through ye heel. 1765 H. Walpole Let. to J. Chute 3 Oct. Two fellows were sweeping it [sc. the Dauphin's bedchamber] and dancing about in sabots to rub the floor. 1787 A. Young Jrnl. 10 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 18 The ploughmen..have neither sabots nor feet to their stockings. 1846 Church Misc. Writ. (1891) I. 92 Captains in the imperial armies..resumed their sabots and baggy breeches. 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. iv. 50 Two boys in blouses and sabots. b. A kind of shoe having a thick wooden sole and ‘uppers’ of coarse leather. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific types of sole > wooden sole clog1416 galoshc1440 sock1691 sabot1840 geta1876 bakya1916 1840 R. H. Barham Bagman's Dog in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 327 He'd a ‘dreadnought’ coat, and heavy sabots With thick wooden soles turn'd up at the toes. 1879 J. Beerbohm Wanderings in Patagonia iii. 43 [He] would now and then wear a pair of sabots made with the skin of the hind legs of the guanacho. 2. Military. Thesaurus » Categories » a. A wooden disc attached to a spherical projectile by means of a copper rivet for the purpose of keeping it evenly in place in the bore of the piece when discharged. b. A metal cup fixed by means of metal straps to a conical projectile, to cause it to ‘take’ the rifling of the gun. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or ball > device to take rifling sabot1855 stud1856 1855 Norton in Mechanics' Mag. 62 88 Expanding self-cleansing sabot for rifle-shot. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 8) 86 The ‘bottoms’ or ‘sabots’ of all naval shells are hollowed out. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 8) 97 Wooden Bottoms, or Sabots. 1860 J. E. Tennent Story of Guns (1864) 209 The shot, unprotected by a sabot, may have shifted its place. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 355 An egg-shaped bullet, its base embedded in a papier mâché sabot. 1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 63 The fulminate which is put in a card-board sabot next the charge. c. Any device fitted inside the muzzle of a gun to hold or support the projectile to be fired (as when they are of different calibres). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > any device to hold projectile in barrel sabot1950 1950 E. H. Scott & W. B. Richardson Fin Stabilized Projectile Devel. for 3 inch/70 Gun (NAVORD Rep. 1537: AD 857–242) 3 Removal of the sabot by spin can be disregarded as the projectile acquires little, if any, spin in the smooth bore tube... The type of sabot developed by the Germans during World War II, and operating primarily by muzzle blast with the assistance of the air stream, is the simplest in design. 1954 K. W. Gatland Devel. Guided Missile (ed. 2) ii. 47 Models launched from guns in the new supersonic free-flight wind-tunnel are protected in the gun barrel by plastic ‘sabots’ which keep the models correctly aligned and act as pistons. 1957 E. Burgess Guided Weapons iv. 100 The models..which are being tested are launched through a smooth-bore gun by means of a discarding sabot. 1963 Dict. U.S. Mil. Terms (U.S. Dept. Defense) 188 Sabot, lightweight carrier in which a subcaliber projectile is centered to permit firing the projectile in the larger caliber weapon. The carrier fills the bore of the weapon from which the projectile is fired; it is normally discarded a short distance from the muzzle. 1975 I. V. Hogg German Artillery of World War Two 267 An enormous range of sabot shells was developed in Germany with the intention of either increasing the range of field guns or reducing the time of flight of anti-aircraft shells. 3. Mechanics. The iron shoe or point of a pile (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl., 1884); an iron shoe used to protect the end of a file for working metal ( Cent. Dict. 1891); a cutting armature at the end of a tubular boring-rod. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for boring in the ground > parts or attachments topit1839 brake1849 tiger1864 bore-log1870 brace-head1875 stretcher-bar1883 sabot1884 1884 Public Opinion 3 Oct. 432 The system of sinking shafts..by means of hollow iron tubes with cutting sabots. 4. A brace connected with the pedal of a harp and used for shortening the string. ΚΠ 1891 in Cent. Dict. 5. (See quot. 1966.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > parts of furniture generally > foot > specific part back foot1618 sabot1962 1962 3rd Internat. Art Treasures Exhib. (Victoria & Albert Mus.) 20/2 A Louis XV parquetry table à écrire..raised on cabriole legs with gilt bronze sabots. 1966 M. M. Pegler Dict. Interior Design (1967) 383 Sabots... Decorative metal coverings for the feet of wood furniture..appeared in the 18th century, and were made of bronze doré, bronze, brass, etc. 1980 Country Life 3 July 11/2 A ravishing writing desk... The cabriole legs are framed by moulded ormolu borders reaching down to pierced sabots. 6. In baccarat and chemin de fer, a shoe: see shoe n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > baccarat or chemin-de-fer > equipment shoe1923 sabot1964 1963 C. Graves None but Rich 3 Baccarat, in fact, is chemin-de-fer played with a fixed bank, chemin-de-fer taking its name from the fact that the ‘shoe’ (in French, sabot), as the deal box is known, moves like a toy railway train round the table each time the dealer loses.] 1964 A. Wykes Gambling vii. 177 (caption) The sabot from which the ‘chemmy’ cards are dealt. 1966 P. O'Donnell Sabre-tooth vi. 93 The sabot containing the six packs of cards, recently shuffled and stacked by the croupier. 1977 X. Fielding Money Spinner 162 Finally they are placed in the ‘shoe’ or sabot, from which the banker deals them one by one. Derivatives ˈsaboted adj. shod with sabots. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing footwear > wearing shoes > wearing shoes made from specific material row-footeda1398 rough-foota1425 rough-footed?a1501 wooden-footed1670 moccasined1829 saboted1862 row-foot1896 suede-shoed1936 suede-footed1938 1862 Simeon in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 421 The bloused and saboted driver. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Aug. 11/2 Colonies of greasy, sabotted Frenchmen. 1905 Daily Chron. 27 Mar. 4/5 His blue-bloused and sabotted gardeners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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