sabre /ˈseɪbə 
/ (US English saber) ▸ noun 1 a heavy cavalry sword with a curved blade and a single cutting edge. ▪ historical a cavalry soldier and horse.
2 a light fencing sword with a tapering, typically curved blade. ▸ verb [with object] archaic cut down or wound with a sabre: the people were fired on and sabred.
– ORIGIN late 17th century: from French, alteration of obsolete sable, from German Sabel (local variant of Säbel), from Hungarian szablya.
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