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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
saber
    n 1: a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved
         handle [syn: saber, sabre]
    2: a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back [syn:
       cavalry sword, saber, sabre]
    v 1: cut or injure with a saber [syn: sabre, saber]
    2: kill with a saber [syn: saber, sabre]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Saber \Sa"ber\, Sabre \Sa"bre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saberedor
   Sabred; p. pr. & vb. n. Sabering or Sabring.] [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.                              --Burke.
   [1913 Webster] Saberbill

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Saber \Sa"ber\, Sabre \Sa"bre\, n. [F. sabre, G. s[aum]bel; of
   uncertain origin; cf. Hung. sz['a]blya, 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 (Zool.), the cutlass fish.
      [1913 Webster] Saber

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