Sabot vs Slug - What's the difference?
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A wooden shoe.
*1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 8:
A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
A bullet (projectile).
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
(physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
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A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
(television editing) A black screen.
(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
(web design) The last part of a (clean URL), the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
(obsolete) A hindrance; an obstruction.
A ship that sails slowly.
* Samuel Pepys
To drink quickly; to gulp.
To down a shot.
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
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(of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
(obsolete) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
* Spenser
To load with a slug or slugs.
To make sluggish.
As nouns the difference between sabot and slug
is that sabot is a wooden shoe while slug is any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell.As a verb slug is
to drink quickly; to gulp.sabot
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(en noun)Anagrams
* * ----slug
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(en noun)- (Shakespeare) Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed. Romeo and Juliet
- (Francis Bacon)
- His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
- (Halliwell)
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* (a quantity of a drink) See alsoDerived terms
* black slug * sea slug * slug lineSee also
* (gastropod) snailVerb
(slugg)- He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
- The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
- To slug in sloth and sensual delight.
- to slug a gun
- (Milton)