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Answer for the clue "Cavalryman's prop ", 5 letters:
saber

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Word definitions for saber in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of sabre English) vb. (alternative spelling of sabre English)

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 saber.

Thus sustained, he thrust and hacked with a reddened saber at the men who hurled themselves, their faces contorted and their torsos adrip with perspiration, among the British seamen.

Feliz por ter falado com meu amigo e por saber que o veria logo, fui para o pomar.

Luckily, almost all the Zaks would have already exhausted their supply of bazooka rockets, because without his beam rifle he would have no choice but to use the beam saber in close-quarter combat.

A saber struck his dwarf-made byrnie hard, and once a blow on his helmet blurred his vision, making his mouth taste of blood.

He held his deactivated saber one-handed, low in an ambiguous stance, not quite attack ready.

She wore a cross sash of blue and green plaid, and a saber girded to her hip.

Jannis girded on his long saber and his tin decoration and strutted up and down.

Barba Jannis girded on his long saber and his tin decoration and strutted up and down.

A winged horse was embroidered in gold on the left sleeve of her shortcoat, and a saber girded at her side.

Now the boy addressed her with the proper tone of respect, and eyed the saber girded at her side with trepidation.

His thin, hawk-like features lowered in a wrathful snarl, his beard bristled and with a quick motion he unsheathed his ivory-hilted saber.

There was an enormous lingam there, which Mahommed Babar used as a stool, sitting in the European way with legs thrust forward and his old-fashioned saber laid across his knees.

Then, as Mickel dropped the saber in the open doorway and departed, he turned upon her.

His lankiness was also skimpily clad in European style, save for cavalry boots and saber.

He was expert with a cavalry saber, which was a somewhat similar weapon to the spadroon, but he had also studied the rapier, and so he was at last able to give Oliver some instruction in what to do with his weapon.