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sabretash

sabretash is the alternative form of sabretache.

Meaning of sabretache

Noun

sabretache (plural sabretaches)

  1. (historical) A leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt.
    • There were five buttons blown off my dress jacket; the slings of my sabretache were cut off, but my sword belts were not touched.1877, John Doyle, A Descriptive Account of the Famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava

Forms of sabretash

pluralsabretashes

Questions about sabretash

What is sabretash the alternative form of?
Sabretash is the alternative form of sabretache.

Words near sabretash in the dictionary

  1. sabres
  2. sabretache
  3. sabretaches
  4. sabretasche
  5. sabretasches
  6. sabretash
  7. sabretashes
  8. sabretooth
  9. sabretoothed
  10. sabretooths
  11. sabreur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sabretash (page history and authors); sabretache (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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