What is "sabots"

Usage examples of "sabots".

After that the hurrying retreat of many feet, the click of sabots on the uneven pavement and patter of shoeless feet, and then silence.

So great, indeed, was this stillness that the click of the man's sabots upon the uneven pavement reverberated, ghoul-like and weird.

Others whittle and file round blocks of wood, called sabots, and strap cannonballs to them.

But (not to put too fine a point on it) large bores, into which gunners are shoveling all manner of messy ironmongery: pairs of cannonballs chained together, nails, redundant crowbars, clusters of grapeshot piled on sabots and tied together with ostentatiously clever sailors’ knots.

The landlord came stumping out form the back premises, his sabots clattering on the tiled floor.

The porters afoot made nearly as much noise, for they wore wooden sabots, and they clumped along under the weight of everything from baskets overflowing with sprats to entire sturgeons as big as themselves.

From the Florilegium tober, the circus company watched in wonder as accordion-necked old farmers and muscular young farm laborers and meat-faced farm women, dressed in coarse homespun and wooden sabots, some carrying wicked-looking scythes and sickles, came afoot or in farm carts drawn by mules or oxen, across the Bois de Boulogne from the western countryside and, sparing not even a curious sidelong look at the circus spread, moved implacably toward the center of Paris.