SABRE

saber, sabre

(noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle

saber, sabre

(verb) kill with a saber

sabre, saber

(verb) cut or injure with a saber

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sabre (plural sabres)

(UK, Canada) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.

(UK, Canada, fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.

Usage notes

This spelling has become relatively common in the United States due to the Buffalo Sabres hockey team as well as the occasional tendency to use British spellings for archaic nouns (compare theater versus theatre).

Verb

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)

(UK, Canada, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.

Anagrams

• BSAer, Bares, Brase, Breas, Saber, bares, barse, baser, bears, besra, braes, rabes, saber

Source: Wiktionary


Sa"ber, Sa"bre, n. Etym: [F. sabre, G. säbel; of uncertain origin; cf. Hung. száblya, Pol. szabla, Russ. sabla, and L. Gr.

Definition: A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword. Saber fish, or Sabre fish (Zoöl.), the cutlass fish.

Sa"ber, Sa"bre, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sabered or Sabred (; p. pr. & vb. n. Sabering or Sabring (.] Etym: [Cf. F. sabrer.]

Definition: To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber. You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission. Burke.

Sa"bre, n. & v.

Definition: See Saber.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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