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sabre | sabrelike |

As a noun sabre

is a light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.

As a verb sabre

is to hit or kill with a sabre.

As an adjective sabrelike is

resembling a sabre.

sabre

English

(wikipedia sabre)

Alternative forms

* (chiefly US) saber

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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 hockey team as well as the occasional tendency to use British spellings for archaic nouns (compare theater versus theatre).

    Verb

    (sabr)
  • (UK, Canada, transitive) To hit or kill with a sabre.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "sabre")

    See also

    * sabrer * sabreur

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    sabrelike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • resembling a sabre
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 18, author=Mimi Sheraton, title=Markets as Both Feast and Spectacle, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=ABOUT 15 years ago I witnessed a 500-pound bluefin flown in from Montauk fetch $50,000 wholesale and watched it being cut with a lengthy sabrelike steel blade into tapering vertical quarters. }}

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