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sabring

sabring is the present participle and gerund of sabre.

Meaning of sabre

Verb

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)

  1. (Canada, UK, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.
    • There lie poor sallow workworn weavers, and complain no more now; women themselves are slashed and sabred, howling terror fills the air; […]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in Past and Present
  2. (Canada, UK, transitive) To open (a bottle) via sabrage.

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Questions about sabring

What is sabring the present participle and gerund of?
Sabring is the present participle and gerund of sabre.

Words near sabring in the dictionary

  1. sabreurs
  2. sabrewing
  3. sabrewings
  4. Sabrina
  5. Sabrina work
  6. sabring
  7. SABRmetrics
  8. sabromin
  9. Sabry
  10. sabs
  11. Sabud

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sabring (page history and authors); sabre (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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