SABRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sabre mean? 

• SABRE (noun)
  The noun SABRE has 2 senses:

1. a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle

2. a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back

  Familiarity information: SABRE used as a noun is rare.

• SABRE (verb)
  The verb SABRE has 2 senses:

1. cut or injure with a saber

2. kill with a saber

  Familiarity information: SABRE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SABRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

saber; sabre

Hypernyms ("sabre" is a kind of...):

fencing sword (a sword used in the sport of fencing)

Domain category:

fencing (the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules))

Derivation:

sabre (kill with a saber)

sabre (cut or injure with a saber)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stout sword with a curved blade and thick back

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cavalry sword; saber; sabre

Hypernyms ("sabre" is a kind of...):

blade; brand; steel; sword (a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sabre"):

scimitar (a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade)

Derivation:

sabre (kill with a saber)

sabre (cut or injure with a saber)

• SABRE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sabre    ... he / she / it sabres   
Past simple: sabred   
Past participle: sabred   
-ing form: sabring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut or injure with a saber

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

saber; sabre

Hypernyms (to "sabre" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

sabre (a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back)

sabre (a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Kill with a saber

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

saber; sabre

Hypernyms (to "sabre" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

sabre (a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back)

sabre (a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle)

 Context examples 

Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow—a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)