Definitions for sabots

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sabots sab·ot

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

IPA: /ˈsæb oʊ; French saˈboʊ/

Sabots is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in sabots (abosst).

Definitions for sabots

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 sabots

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 sabots

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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