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Definition of Saber
1. Noun. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
Category relationships: Fencing
Generic synonyms: Fencing Sword
Derivative terms: Sabre, Sabre
2. Verb. Cut or injure with a saber.
3. Noun. A stout sword with a curved blade and thick back.
Specialized synonyms: Scimitar
Generic synonyms: Blade, Brand, Steel, Sword
Derivative terms: Sabre, Sabre
4. Verb. Kill with a saber.
Definition of Saber
1. 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.
2. v. t. To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
Definition of Saber
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of sabre) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Saber
1. to strike with a saber (a type of sword) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saber
Literary usage of Saber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Handbook for the Hospital Corps of the U.S. Army and Navy and by Charles Field Mason (1909)
"Drop the point of the saber directly to the front, point on or near ... Being at
the present saber, should the next command be order at officers order saber ..."
2. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"To Alfonso is due also the publication of the Libros del saber, a voluminous
encyclopaedia of the astronomical knowledge of the time, which, though compiled ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
"And now old saber turns up again in his green old age. He and his wife both
dreaming that some great disaster had befallen Bevis, he and twelve of his best ..."
4. Military Commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856: Report of Major Alfred by Alfred Mordecai, Julius Schön, Josiah Gorgas (1861)
"The horse artillery saber is of the same pattern as ours, ... Some batteries
however use the light cavalry saber, which is also nearly of the same pattern ..."
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