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sabre
Part of speech: NounA sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and having the edge a little curved backwards at the point.
Part of speech: VerbTo wound or kill, as with a sabre.
Usage examples "sabre":- Rasselas, in the first heat of his resentment, ordered his servants to follow him, and prepared to pursue the robbers with his sabre in his hand. - "Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia", Samuel Johnson.
- I am considered to know something of the sword exercise, and I thought you wielded that axe, as though your arm had been used to a sabre this many a year." - "La Vendée An Historical Romance", Anthony Trollope.
- Each horseman carried in his hand a long wooden lance and wore at his side a cavalry sabre, of which there were plenty to be had since the war, at small expense. - "The House Behind the Cedars", Charles W. Chesnutt.