sabrelike

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adjective

resembling a sabre

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Meanings

adjectivesabrelike (comparative more sabrelike, superlative most sabrelike)

comparative more sabrelike · superlative most sabrelike

  1. resembling a sabre

    ABOUT 15 years ago I witnessed a 500-pound bluefin flown in from Montauk fetch $50,000 wholesale and watched it being cut with a lengthy sabrelike steel blade into tapering vertical quarters.

    2007 November 18, Mimi Sheraton, “Markets as Both Feast and Spectacle”, in New York Times

Origin

From sabre + -like.

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APA

sabrelike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sabrelike

MLA

“sabrelike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sabrelike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sabrelike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sabrelike.

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