sabre
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Two types of weapons were likely used, probably a sabre and a longsword.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2025
Regardless, the statement amounted to unusual nuclear sabre rattling.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
Kharlan was disqualified from last year's World Championships after offering her sabre to tap blades instead of shaking hands following victory over Anna Smirnova.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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
Even Wellington's self hath averred Thou art yet but half sabred and hung, And I loved him the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from his tongue.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
Only at long intervals was the silence broken by the return of a plumed and sabred general, his father, from the wars.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
On either side of the door stood a soldier in Cossack uniform, huge fellows, sabred, with their helmets belted under their chins, and their fierce, black eyes staring straight ahead, scarcely blinking.
From The Black Cross by Olive M. Briggs
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
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
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
Page 453, line 40, read "sabring" for "sobering."
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
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