Definitions for sabot

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sabot sab·ot

Spelling: [sab-oh; French sa-boh]

IPA: /ˈsæb oʊ; French saˈboʊ/

Sabot 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 80 anagrams from letters in sabot (abost).

Definitions for sabot

noun

1. a shoe made of a single block of wood hollowed out, worn especially by farmers and workers in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, etc.
2. a shoe with a thick wooden sole and sides and a top of coarse leather.
3. Military. a wooden or metal disk formerly attached to a projectile in a muzzleloading cannon. a soft metal ring at the base of a projectile that makes the projectile conform to the rifling grooves of a gun.

Origin of sabot

1600-10; French, Old French çabot, blend of savate old shoe (of uncertain origin; akin to Old Provençal sabata, Italian ciabatta, Spanish zapato) and bot boot¹

Examples for sabot

Several sorts of wood supply the material of which boots are made (the sabot in France and Holland).

I had not been as fortunate as some detectives, for there was no evidence that the straws had ever been used in a sabot at all.

They wear wooden clogs, a sort of sabot, and make such a noise.

Some German machine guns stood their ground in the wood of sabot and contributed to the resistance of the enemy.

"I do not say—I do not say; perhaps we might come to an understanding," faltered sabot.

When sabot entered the inn at Martinville it was a signal for laughter.

The round shot should be sewed up in canvas or felt, strapped to a sabot, or snaked between two grommet-wads.

sabot (Theodule), a master carpenter, represented liberal thought in Martinville.

The sabot was a wooden disk about the same diameter as the shot.

Toward that end, the sabot or "shoe" (fig. 41) took the place of the wad.