Definitions for Saber

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Saber sa·ber

Spelling: [sey-ber]

IPA: /ˈseɪ bər/

Saber is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in Saber (abers).

Definitions for Saber

noun

1. a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
2. a soldier armed with such a sword.
3. Fencing. a sword having two cutting edges and a blunt point. the art or sport of fencing with the saber, with the target being limited to the head, trunk, and arms, and hits being made with the front edge and the upper part of the back edge of the sword and by thrusts.

verb (used with object)

1. to strike, wound, or kill with a saber.

Origin of Saber

1670-80; French sabre, sable German Sabel (now Säbel), earlier sewel, schebel Polish szabla; compare Czech šavle, Serbo-Croatian sȁblja, Russian sáblya sword, saber, perhaps all ultimately Hu

Examples for Saber

saber can appeal the ruling issued by a Cairo court after paying bail of 1,000 Egyptian pounds ($160).

I am wounded with a saber, in the head; and am sheltered in a loft.

Holding of saber in publishing orders, etc.; use of saber knot.

He smartly swung his saber to his shoulder, ordering, "Come on!"

If nothing else, Silvio Berlusconi knows how to rattle a saber.

saber has been increasingly vocal in his opposition to both since they came to power.

With one hand hipping his saber and the other curling his mustaches, he smiled at her.

saber, however, is an outspoken atheist, according to his lawyer and friends.

He retreated toward the automobile, the saber raised to protect Peggy.

It also may explain why there was no saber rattling on Syria on Sunday.