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sabot


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sabot  \Sa`bot"\  (s[.a]`b[=o]"),  n.  [F.] 
  1.  A  kind  of  wooden  shoe  worn  by  the  peasantry  in  France, 
  Belgium,  Sweden,  and  some  other  European  countries. 
 
  2.  (Mil.)  A  thick,  circular  disk  of  wood,  to  which  the 
  cartridge  bag  and  projectile  are  attached,  in  fixed 
  ammunition  for  cannon;  also  a  piece  of  soft  metal 
  attached  to  a  projectile  to  take  the  groove  of  the 
  rifling. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sabot 
  n  :  footwear  usually  with  wooden  soles  [syn:  {clog},  {geta},  {patten}] 




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