- a variation of saber.
sabre
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In it, a French geologist mentioned a single sabre shaped fossil tooth resembling those of the massive predator Carcharodontosaurus, originally found in Egypt's Western Desert in the early 1900s.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
Regardless, the statement amounted to unusual nuclear sabre rattling.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
The women’s sabre final, which Kharlan will hope to reach, takes place from 20:45.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024
For many years, he has been among the best in the Americas in foil and sabre.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
There are lots of girls carrying all kinds of blades: foil, epee, sabre.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
It was a phrase that sabred the spider-webs of logical refinement, and held them up scornfully on the point.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
She faced death, as women mostly do, bravely and even gayly, racked slowly to unconsciousness but yielding only to violence, as a soldier sabred in battle.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
The Russian hussars of Ysum were sabred and overthrown at Kelm.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
There's a splendid fellow here, a Pole, called Koratinsky; he commanded the cavalry at Ostrolenca, and, it is said, rode down the Russian Guard, and sabred the Imperial Cuirassiers to a man.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
A sabred Procession has nothing for it but to explode, along what streets, alleys, Tuileries Avenues it finds; and disappear.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Page 453, line 40, read "sabring" for "sobering."
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
Half a dozen huzzaing and sabring troopers saw the three and shouted to others nearer yet.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
If I were to march into Moldavia," a Rumanian was telling me, "against the enemies of Austria, I would have to begin by sabring all the Moldavian peasants, who are crying, 'Down with Austria!'
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
