saboted

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adjective

Of a projectile: held in place by a sabot (carrier).

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivesaboted (not comparable)

alternative sabotted

  1. not comparableOf a projectile: held in place by a sabot (carrier).
  2. not comparableWearing a sabot or sabots (shoes).

    A cheerful Dutch motif of saboted children,[…]

    1968, Modern Packaging, page 133
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    […]the speaker suddenly claps her saboted foot down on the ground, and continues to rock and knit.

    1868 July, “St. Michael’s Night”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics., volume XXII, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., chapter VIII, page 23

    Two swarthy peasants, male and female, who’d plainly wolfed down more than the customary quota of three square meals a day, were planting a saboted foot apiece on the nude, lily-white behind of an ample woman, her blond head circled in a crown of coins.

    1952, Geri Trotta, Veronica Died Monday, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, pages 29–30

Origin

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