sabot
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oʊ; noun, plural sab·ots [sab-ohz; French sa-boh] .
[sab-ohz; French sa-boh] . 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.
a wooden or metal disk formerly attached to a projectile in a muzzleloading cannon.
b.
a soft metal ring at the base of a projectile that makes the projectile conform to the rifling grooves of a gun.
Origin:
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 boot
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 boot
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Sabot
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a shoe made from a single block of wood |
| 2. | a shoe with a wooden sole and a leather or cloth upper |
| 3. | a lightweight sleeve in which a subcalibre round is enclosed in order to make it fit the rifling of a firearm. After firing the sabot drops away |
| 4. | (Austral) a small sailing boat with a shortened bow |
| [C17: from French, probably from Old French savate an old shoe, also influenced by bot | |
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sabot
heavy work shoe worn by European peasants, especially in France and the Low Countries. There are two kinds of sabots: one is shaped and hollowed from a single piece of wood (called klompen by the Dutch); the other is a heavy leather shoe with a wooden sole.
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Example sentences
The sabot is necessary to transfer propellant energy but is a parasitic weight in terms of projectile target performance.
The projectile never directly touches the barrel, and the sabot typically falls away after firing.
The shell is a sabot round, meaning that the penetrator is contained within a carrier as it is fired from the barrel.
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