Definition of sabot Sabot

sab•ot

We found 9 definitions of sabot from 6 different sources.

What does sabot mean?

Noun Plural: sabots
sabot - a shoe carved from a single block of wood
		wooden shoe
sabot - footwear usually with wooden soles
		clog, geta, patten

= synonym
= antonym
= related word

sabot (Noun)
A wooden shoe.
sabot (Noun)
A carrier around projectiles in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel.

sabot (n.)
A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
sabot (n.)
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.

sabot
sä-bō′, n. a wooden shoe, worn by the French peasantry: a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.—n. Sabotier′, a wearer of wooden shoes: a Waldensian. [Fr. sabot—Low L. sabbatum, a shoe.]

sabot
Is a thick, circular disk of wood, to which, in fixed ammunition, the cartridge-bag and projectile are attached. For a spherical projectile, the sabot has a spherical cavity, and circular groove to which the cartridge-bag is tied; in the canister-sabot, the spherical cavity is omitted, and a circular offset is added. The effects of a sabot are: (1) To prevent the formation of a lodgment in the bore. (2) To moderate the action of the powder on the projectile; and, (3) To prevent the projectile from moving from its place. In consequence of the scattering of the fragments, it is dangerous to use the sabot in firing over the heads of one’s own men. The term is also applied to the soft metal device attached to the base of rifled projectiles to take the grooves of the bore.