sabot

IPA: sˈæbʌt

A wooden shoe.
A carrier around a projectile in a firearm, cannon or other type of artillery piece that precisely holds the projectile within the barrel.

Examples of "sabot" in Sentences

It was glued in a paper case known as a Sabot.
The sabot disintegrates upon exiting the barrel.
Utilising an improved penetrator and a new Sabot.
This results in the separation of the sabot and projectile.
I will remove the hatnote for now and redirect sabots to sabot.
Before firing, the sub projectile and sabot are locked together.
The bullet separates from the sabot approximately from the muzzle.
The counterpart of APFSDS in rifle ammunition is the saboted flechette.
Shotgun slugs often use a cast plastic sabot similar to the spindle sabot.
Ring Sabot A cup sabot merely supports the base and rear end of a projectile.
Hornady .429 Diameter 265 grain soft point with a T/C Magnum sabot is flat out awesome!
The green sabot is thicker and makes up the .06 left over by using the small diameter bullet.
Those who know that one meaning of sabot is “a wooden shoe” will probably admire desabotage, from Bill Parks, of Covington, Va.
Then we discover that outside of Teutonic countries no one celebrates Christmas by the giving of presents and that in Holland, instead of the stocking, the child's wooden sabot is used for the Christmas presents.
From the word sabot, comes the verb saboter: "to bungle," literally, "to walk noisily": with it, the reminder to no longer stomp, but to tiptoe past the Gallic culture that still whispers out from every French nook and cranny, to travel forward--light on my feet--so as not to "sabotage" this French experience.