sabot
IPA: sˈæbʌt
noun
- 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.
verb
- (transitive) To enclose (a projectile) in a sabot.
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Examples of "sabot" in Sentences
- 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.
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