sabot
/sab-oh; French sa-boh/US // ˈsæb oʊ; French saˈboʊ //UK // (ˈsæbəʊ, French sabo) //
剑拔弩张,剑杆菌,剑齿虎,剑鱼
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n.名词 noun
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plural sab·ots [sab-ohz; French sa-boh]. /ˈsæb oʊz; French saˈboʊ/.
- : a shoe made of a single block of wood hollowed out, worn especially by farmers and workers in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, etc.
- : a shoe with a thick wooden sole and sides and a top of coarse leather.
- : Military. a wooden or metal disk formerly attached to a projectile in a muzzleloading cannon.a soft metal ring at the base of a projectile that makes the projectile conform to the rifling grooves of a gun.
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Examples
The boy drew pictures in the loose sand with the toe of his sabot and brushed them away one after the other.
"I came here before my children woke, because it pierces my heart to listen to their crying," the sabot-maker said dejectedly.
One was a perfect staple, another the letter "L," another like an axe-head, and one like a peasant's sabot.
A sabot filled with salt, a frying-pan, and a large kettle hung inside the chimney.
"There's many a pretty foot in a sabot," retorted Peter, with an air of philosophy.
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