Machete vs Sable - What's the difference?
machete | sable |
A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machete's blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick.
To cut or chop with a machete.
To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.
A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina , from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur ().
The marten, especially .
The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
*1928 , (Virginia Woolf),
*:Lovers dallied upon divans spread with sables .
An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable ().
(lb) A black colour on a coat of arms.
A black colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
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Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
*(rfdate) Young
*:Sables wove by destiny.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables , radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
Of the black colour sable.
* (rfdate) Young
* 2002 , , chapter 3
(tincture): In blazon, of the colour black.
Made of sable fur.
Dark, somber.
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As nouns the difference between machete and sable
is that machete is machete while sable is , shortbread.As an adjective sable is
sandy.As a verb sable is
.machete
English
(wikipedia machete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* boloSee also
* bolo * cleaver * golok (Indonesian) * knife * hatchet * parangVerb
(machet)- After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.
- You can't just machete about with a rapier and expect to succeed; you need to thrust properly.
sable
English
Alternative forms
* (in heraldic contexts)Noun
Derived terms
* sable antelope * sablefish * sable iron * sable mouseAdjective
(en adjective)- Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
- They wound between the wagons to a tent removed from the rest of the traders'. It was crimson at the top and sable at the bottom, with thin triangles of colors stabbing into each other.