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US
/ˈseɪbɝ/
]
[ UK /sˈeɪbɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈeɪbɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back
- a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle
VERB
- kill with a saber
- cut or injure with a saber
How To Use sabre In A Sentence
- Women's wrestling is a totally new discipline, while women's sabre is included in fencing.
- Fighting with a sabre is a very different kettle of the piscine variety compared to the rapier. Cold Steel and Hot Blood
- 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 Sabres were often used to attack rebel encampments and the usual tactic was to come in at very low altitude and catch the rebels by surprise, strafing the area with the six .50-caliber Brownings.
- The regiments of Fleur-d'Orange, Millefleur, and Eau-de-Cologne covered themselves with glory: they sabred many thousands of the enemy's troops.
- Milanese fencing master Giuseppe Radaelli, is generally credited with having developed the light sabre and its technique.
- Lorn slowly replaces the sabre and the firelance, and then pulls out the message blank for the Engineers. The Magi'i Of Cyador
- The verbal sabre rattling by US Treasury Secretary Geithner is a threat to the open global trading system.
- In like manner the commander of Fort Casimir, when he found his martial spirit waxing too hot within him, would sally forth into the fields and lay about him most lustily with his sabre; decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down lofty sunflowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes; and if, perchance, he espied a colony of big-bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun, "Ah! caitiff Yankees!" would he roar, "have I caught ye at last? Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
- The Sabres rarely forechecked aggressively, and Peca's biggest job was usually to shut down the opponent's top center.