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Saber   /sˈeɪbər/   Listen
noun
Sabre, Saber  n.  A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
Saber fish, or Sabre fish (Zool.), the cutlass fish.



verb
Sabre, Saber  v. t.  (past & past part. sabered or sabred; pres. part. sabering or sabring)  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."






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"Saber" Quotes from Famous Books



... lemon with a saber, and the Dummy Race, ended the morning's sports. The afternoon was to be devoted ...
— The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires - The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail • Laura Dent Crane

... cast a spell over their meat, and it was torturing them, they cried. I must be killed at once, and then the spell would be removed. The king commanded them to withdraw. They resisted. He drew his saber, and cut down two of the ringleaders. The rest seized their guns and began to shoot. There were about sixty of them, all suffering, more or less, from the effects of arsenic poisoning. We were only twelve in number, but our men had the ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various

... large white Arabic script (that may be translated as There is no God but God; Muhammad is the Messenger of God) above a white horizontal saber (the tip points to the hoist side); green is ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... have you, Sally Ann?—then I must have the pleasure of cutting you into ribbons." Herbert Cary's shining saber flashed half out of its scabbard and then, laughing, he slapped it back ...
— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple

... his lessons are lessons of love, of noble aims, of energy and enthusiasm. He is full of love for the best in the past, love of his native soil, love of his native landscapes, love of the men about him, love of his country. He is a poet of the "Gai Saber," joyous and healthy, he has never felt a trace of the bitterness, the disenchantment, the gloom and the pain of a Byron or a Leopardi. He is eminently representative of the race he seeks to glorify in its own eyes ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer


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