Sabot

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sab=ot

CIDE DICTIONARY

Sabot, n. [F.].

•  A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.  [1913 Webster]
•  A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Sabot, n.
1 a kind of simple shoe hollowed out from a block of wood.
2 a wooden-soled shoe.
3 Austral. a small snub-nosed yacht.

Derivative

saboted adj.

Etymology

F, blend of savate shoe + botte boot