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单词 sabre
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sabre

/ˈseɪbə /
(US saber)
noun
1A heavy cavalry sword with a curved blade and a single cutting edge.Police sabers, cavalry sabers, European-type dress swords and other non-traditional blades are outside the scope of this discussion....
  • 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.
  • The design of the sabre came from the cutting sword used by cavalries.
1.1 historical A cavalry soldier and horse.This I did to the best of my ability, by continually sending squadrons of about a thousand sabres out against them....
  • There remained French's Cavalry Division, with Hutton's Mounted Infantry, which could not have exceeded two thousand sabres and rifles.
  • On February 27th Sheridan, with two divisions of cavalry, ten thousand sabers, moved up the Valley to Staunton.
2A light fencing sword with a tapering, typically curved blade.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.
  • In fact, the modern sabre as used in the sport of fencing today has absolutely no curve at all.
verb [with object] archaic
Cut down or wound with a sabre: the people were fired on and sabred...
  • 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.
  • 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.

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

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