sabots

The French term for wooden clogs - 'sabots' - is where the word 'sabotage' comes from.

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The French term for wooden clogs - 'sabots' - is where the word 'sabotage' comes from.

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I'm shooting 150 grns powder with 300 grain sabots.

Does anyone have experience using the Nikon Omega Shotgun scope with the BDC (ranged) reticle? 2010

I'm shooting 150 grns powder with 300 grain sabots.

Does anyone have experience using the Nikon Omega Shotgun scope with the BDC (ranged) reticle? 2010

Men and women both wear the heavy wooden shoes called sabots, in which the feet suffer no pressure as from leather shoes, and are protected against the moisture of the ground.

Jean Francois Millet Hurll, Estelle M 1900

"My gaffer will go farther with his 'sabots' than yours with their cast-iron contrivances that turn out mass books all day long," he would boast.

Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

"My gaffer will go farther with his 'sabots' than yours with their cast-iron contrivances that turn out mass books all day long," he would boast.

Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The player, as Bishop, will open the chest and find it is filled with wooden shoes, or "sabots".

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"sabots" swinging heavily and round shoulders bent beneath the burden of his weighty stone-breaking implements.

The Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman 1882

"Well," said the guardian Lucas, "when I let you down, as you are no fatter than a herring bone, you will get shaken about in the crevasse, and will risk breaking your bones, while if you have the 'sabots' on your hands you can protect yourself against the walls by putting out your arms to the right and the left, according as you are shaken up against them.

My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884