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Definition of sabre in English: sabre(US saber) noun ˈseɪbəˈseɪbər 1A heavy cavalry sword with a curved blade and a single cutting edge. Example sentencesExamples - The sword was far too heavy, so Raven took a saber and imbued it with magical strength and abilities.
- Muskets and pikes and sabers lay strewn and forgotten like cut hay.
- Twelve of Poland's divisions were cavalry, armed with lance and sabre, and they were no match for tanks.
- She charged at her, blade of the dark saber extended.
- In addition to shortages on armor plates there has also been a shortage on assault rifles, requiring the military to outfit one man per platoon with a cavalry saber.
- Old muskets, pistols and sabers were spread everywhere Billy and White Eagle rode.
- They rode sturdy Mongolian ponies, wore distinctive fur caps, and carried sabers, pistols, and rifles.
- Then bend Dante's sword so that it is curved like a saber.
- Police sabers, cavalry sabers, European-type dress swords and other non-traditional blades are outside the scope of this discussion.
- In February, the troop will be honing their cavalry charging techniques with sabre and lance.
- They want to dominate Europe by bureaucratic cleverness where they could not do so by muzzle-loading cannon, muskets and cavalry sabers.
- The design of the sabre came from the cutting sword used by cavalries.
- The saber flew forward and curved around slicing through trees and vines.
- The blades were usually double-edged and up to 90 cm, or a little over, in length, but early single-edged sabres are also known.
- No deputy stood a chance of leaving the chamber, and when one group tried, they were turned back by Hanriot and Guardsmen with drawn sabres.
- Further support of this theory is demonstrated in the Battle of Balaclava where the sabers of the cavalry had little or no effect through heavy clothing.
- Stoek went back into his cabin and came out with a dagger, a sabre and a sword.
- Our new owners are coming in like the Cavalry with sabers drawn, ready to vanquish the enemy.
- Every confederate soldier gave a loud battle cry and with their muskets, pistols, and sabers raised, they ran toward the Union army.
- Elon shouted as he drew his cavalry saber and aimed his Colt revolver.
- 1.1historical A cavalry soldier and horse.
Example sentencesExamples - On February 27th Sheridan, with two divisions of cavalry, ten thousand sabers, moved up the Valley to Staunton.
- There remained French's Cavalry Division, with Hutton's Mounted Infantry, which could not have exceeded two thousand sabres and rifles.
- This I did to the best of my ability, by continually sending squadrons of about a thousand sabres out against them.
2A light fencing sword with a tapering, typically curved blade. Example sentencesExamples - Modern fencing has evolved into three basic weapons: the foil, the épée and the sabre.
- Milanese fencing master Giuseppe Radaelli, is generally credited with having developed the light sabre and its technique.
- The immediate consequences to a duelist of wounds inflicted by thrusts or cuts from the rapier, dueling sabre or smallsword were unpredictable.
- A laminated floor glinted slightly at the edges, caught light, and a figure moved, shadowed, on the stage, his sabre also catching light.
- In fact, the modern sabre as used in the sport of fencing today has absolutely no curve at all.
- With the exercise saber the touch with the point is hardly perceptible and would not weaken the instructor's cut.
verb ˈseɪbəˈseɪbər [with object]archaic Cut down or wound with a sabre. the people were fired on and sabred Example sentencesExamples - They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter.
- The regiments of Fleur-d'Orange, Millefleur, and Eau-de-Cologne covered themselves with glory: they sabred many thousands of the enemy's troops.
- The ex-soldier and radical politician William Cobbett observed that men would allow themselves to be ‘sabred into crow's meat’ in defence of a set of ragged colours which, were they for sale in a market, would fetch only a few pence.
Origin Late 17th century: from French, alteration of obsolete sable, from German Sabel (local variant of Säbel), from Hungarian szablya. We think of curved swords as typically oriental, and the sabre is no exception. It probably comes from some unknown oriental language and passed into English by a long route that took it from Hungarian szablya via German and French. The extinct sabre-toothed tiger was first described in 1849. See also rattle
Definition of saber in US English: saber(British sabre) nounˈsābərˈseɪbər 1A heavy cavalry sword with a curved blade and a single cutting edge. Example sentencesExamples - Twelve of Poland's divisions were cavalry, armed with lance and sabre, and they were no match for tanks.
- Our new owners are coming in like the Cavalry with sabers drawn, ready to vanquish the enemy.
- The blades were usually double-edged and up to 90 cm, or a little over, in length, but early single-edged sabres are also known.
- The sword was far too heavy, so Raven took a saber and imbued it with magical strength and abilities.
- They want to dominate Europe by bureaucratic cleverness where they could not do so by muzzle-loading cannon, muskets and cavalry sabers.
- Muskets and pikes and sabers lay strewn and forgotten like cut hay.
- Police sabers, cavalry sabers, European-type dress swords and other non-traditional blades are outside the scope of this discussion.
- They rode sturdy Mongolian ponies, wore distinctive fur caps, and carried sabers, pistols, and rifles.
- In addition to shortages on armor plates there has also been a shortage on assault rifles, requiring the military to outfit one man per platoon with a cavalry saber.
- Old muskets, pistols and sabers were spread everywhere Billy and White Eagle rode.
- In February, the troop will be honing their cavalry charging techniques with sabre and lance.
- Every confederate soldier gave a loud battle cry and with their muskets, pistols, and sabers raised, they ran toward the Union army.
- The design of the sabre came from the cutting sword used by cavalries.
- The saber flew forward and curved around slicing through trees and vines.
- No deputy stood a chance of leaving the chamber, and when one group tried, they were turned back by Hanriot and Guardsmen with drawn sabres.
- Stoek went back into his cabin and came out with a dagger, a sabre and a sword.
- She charged at her, blade of the dark saber extended.
- Then bend Dante's sword so that it is curved like a saber.
- Further support of this theory is demonstrated in the Battle of Balaclava where the sabers of the cavalry had little or no effect through heavy clothing.
- Elon shouted as he drew his cavalry saber and aimed his Colt revolver.
- 1.1 A light fencing sword with a tapering blade.
Example sentencesExamples - The immediate consequences to a duelist of wounds inflicted by thrusts or cuts from the rapier, dueling sabre or smallsword were unpredictable.
- Milanese fencing master Giuseppe Radaelli, is generally credited with having developed the light sabre and its technique.
- A laminated floor glinted slightly at the edges, caught light, and a figure moved, shadowed, on the stage, his sabre also catching light.
- In fact, the modern sabre as used in the sport of fencing today has absolutely no curve at all.
- With the exercise saber the touch with the point is hardly perceptible and would not weaken the instructor's cut.
- Modern fencing has evolved into three basic weapons: the foil, the épée and the sabre.
- 1.2historical A cavalry soldier and horse.
Example sentencesExamples - There remained French's Cavalry Division, with Hutton's Mounted Infantry, which could not have exceeded two thousand sabres and rifles.
- This I did to the best of my ability, by continually sending squadrons of about a thousand sabres out against them.
- On February 27th Sheridan, with two divisions of cavalry, ten thousand sabers, moved up the Valley to Staunton.
verbˈsābərˈseɪbər [with object]archaic Cut down or wound with a saber. the people were fired on and sabered Example sentencesExamples - The regiments of Fleur-d'Orange, Millefleur, and Eau-de-Cologne covered themselves with glory: they sabred many thousands of the enemy's troops.
- They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter.
- The ex-soldier and radical politician William Cobbett observed that men would allow themselves to be ‘sabred into crow's meat’ in defence of a set of ragged colours which, were they for sale in a market, would fetch only a few pence.
Origin Late 17th century: from French, alteration of obsolete sable, from German Sabel (local variant of Säbel), from Hungarian szablya. |