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sabrelike

sabrelike adjective: resembling a sabre.

Adjective

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

Forms of sabrelike

comparativemore sabrelike
superlativemost sabrelike

Origin of sabrelike

From sabre + -like.

Questions about sabrelike

What does sabrelike mean?
Sabrelike means resembling a sabre.
What part of speech is sabrelike?
Sabrelike is an adjective.

Words near sabrelike in the dictionary

  1. sabrefish
  2. sabrefishes
  3. sabreleg
  4. sabrelegs
  5. sabreless
  6. sabrelike
  7. sabremetrician
  8. sabremetricians
  9. sabres
  10. sabretache
  11. sabretaches

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