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sabre

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Aging Zorro Peter Westbrook, 44, qualified for his sixth Olympic team in the fencing discipline of sabre . ▪ At his hip hung a massively heavy sabre with an ivory hilt. ▪ He flailed for balance with his sabre arm, then screamed ...

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Sabre Global Distribution System (GDS), owned by Sabre Holdings , is used by more than 350,000 travel agents around the world with more than 400 airlines, 100,000 hotels, 25 car rental brands, 50 rail providers and 17 cruise lines. The Sabre GDS enables ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saber \Sa"ber\, Sabre \Sa"bre\, n. [F. sabre, G. s["a]bel; of uncertain origin; cf. Hung. sz['a]blya, Pol. szabla, Russ. sabla, and L. Gr. zabo`s crooked, curved.] A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved ...

Usage examples of sabre.

The arquebusiers dropped their weapons and drew their sabres, if they had time.

Roddy Bitts, and touched Penrod and Sam, each in turn, with his sabre.

Pyrotists to combat with either sword, sabre, pistols, carabines, or sticks.

Sharpe watched as he adjusted the scarlet pelisse on his shoulder, as he crammed the big fur colback on his head, and as he drew the sabre with his left hand.

Then they switched from practice sabres to practice rapiers, and he dispatched the Baron every bit as quickly with the lighter, edgeless weapon.

At midday on the Tridi after they had met with the Eleventh Company captain, Longyl and Egyl interrupted his mounted sabre training efforts with the first two squads, riding up.

She had begun an affair with a neighbour, and Gilden had challenged him, and killed him in a sabre duel.

I felt glad that Branicki had not followed me down the stairs, for his friend Bininski had a sabre, and I should probably have been assassinated.

At this dastardly action Count Moszczincki seized him and tried to throw him out of the window, but the madman got loose with three cuts of his sabre, one of which slashed the count on the face and knocked out three of his teeth.

They wore round caps, boots of hogskin drawn over their naked feet, and belts of raw hide, in which they stuck their sabres and knives.

Piercollo refused a weapon, but Ilka also chose a short sword, curved like a small sabre, which she belted to her slim waist.

As he arched back, screaming, Ilka stepped forward to slash her sabre through his throat.

Kalugin, who was walking briskly towards the lodgements clanking his sabre.

He could not see their faces at this distance, but he could tell that one of the men was wearin a long straight sword and loup knew that British light infantry officers wore curved sabres.

Then came a very wet day, and Mary was seated by the half-open window of the sitting-room, doing her embroidery in a desultory fashion between watching the rain, an feeling a little lonely and depressed, when Captain Spengler strode into the room, unannounced, in the full glory of his green, gold and scarlet uniform, complete with plumed mirliton, sabretache and sabre.