sabot ( t silent)

[Fr.] 1. Ord . Lang .: A wooden shoe made of one piece hollowed out by boring-tools and scrapers. The kinds of woods used are willow, poplar (Lombardy), beech, birch, aspen, ash, hornbeam, walnut. Sabots are worn by the peasants of France, Belgium, . "A fustain language, like the clattering noise of sabots."-Bramhall: Against Hobbes , p. 20. 2. Ordnance: (1) A circular block, usually of wood, hollowed out and fixed by tin straps to a (smooth-bore) projectile, so as to maintain its proper position in the bore of a gun, to prevent its upsetting in loading, wobbling in discharging, and to decrease windage by occurring the bore more perfectly than can be done by the projectile itself. (2) A gas-ring (q. v.). [Fr. sabot ière , sarbotière=an sa-bō-ti-êre, s . ice-pail, for sorbet ière , from sorbet =sherbet, an ice.] A French apparatus for making ices. It consists of an outer pail of wood and an inner ve el of metal, to contain the cream to be iced. In the intervening space is a mixture of pounded ice and salt, or of sulphate of soda and hydrochloric acid. The contents of the inner ve el are agitated by a handle, and the frozen cream is occasionally scraped down. sā-bre (bre as bēr), sā-ber, s. [Fr. sabre , from Ger. säbel , a word prob. of Hungarian origin; cf. Hung. szábla =a saber; Dut., Dan. & Sw.sabel .] 1. A sword having a curved blade, specially adapted for cutting. That for heavy cavalry has a slightly-curved, heavy blade. The light cavalry saber has a lighter blade, somewhat more curved. The horse-artillery saber is still shorter, lighter, and more curved, and has but one branch to the guard. 2. A soldier armed with a saber; a horse-soldier. "He has also a small body of cavalry, numbering 150 sabres."-London Morning Chronicle.