Crossword clues for sabered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saber \Sa"ber\, Sabre \Sa"bre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saberedor Sabred; p. pr. & vb. n. Sabering or Sabring.] [Cf. F. sabrer.] To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
You send troops to saber and bayonet us into
submission.
--Burke.
Usage examples of "sabered".
Even excepting those who had died fighting or who, taken with arms in their hands, were shot down or sabered on the spot, there were 10,000 persons slaughtered without trial in the province of Anjou alone:[37] accordingly, the instructions of the Committee of Public Safety, also the written orders of Carrier and Francastel, direct generals to "bleed freely" the insurgent districts,[38] and spare not a life: it is estimated that, in the eleven western departments, the dead of both sexes and of all ages exceeded 400,000.
Oh, he'd made a splendid showing, in the beginning—riding up and down the lines loudly proclaiming that he'd have any man who ran away sabered by his officers.
Those who resisted or continued to flee were ruthlessly sabered or shot down with wheel-lock pistols.
But even the vandalism was petty—smashed windows and sabered furniture—since the cavalrymen were under orders not to linger.
Scaurus watched in horrified admiration as a Yezda sabered down three Videssian footsoldiers in quick succession, then leaped his horse over the breast-high palisade and into dusk's safety.
Young girls, babies in arms, old women too feeble to run, braves trying to defend themselves—Tanner’s men sabered them all.