sabre

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: sa=bre

CIDE DICTIONARY

sabre, n. [F. sabre, G. säbel; of uncertain origin; cf. Hung. száblya, Pol. szabla, Russ. sabla, and L. Gr. zabo`s crooked, curved.].

 A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.  [1913 Webster]

Saber fish, or Sabre fish (Zoöl.), the cutlass fish.

sabre, v. t. [Cf. F. sabrer.].

 To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.  [1913 Webster]
"You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission."  [1913 Webster]

sabre, n. & v. 

 See Saber.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sabre, n. & v. (US saber)
--n.
1 a cavalry sword with a curved blade.
2 a cavalry soldier and horse.
3 a light fencing-sword with a tapering blade.
--v.tr. cut down or wound with a sabre.

Idiom

sabre-bill any S. American bird of the genus Campylorhamphus with a long curved bill. sabre-cut
1 a blow with a sabre.
2 a wound made or a scar left by this. sabre-rattling a display or threat of military force. sabre-toothed designating any of various extinct mammals having long sabre-shaped upper canines. sabre-wing a S. American humming-bird, Campylopterus falcatus, with curved wings.

Etymology

F, earlier sable f. G Sabel, S{auml}bel, Schabel f. Pol. szabla or Magyar szablya