sabot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a shoe carved from a single block of wood
    wooden shoe.
  2. noun footwear usually with wooden soles
    geta; patten; clog.

WordNet

Sa`bot" noun
Etymology
F.
Definitions
  1. A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
  2. (Mil.) 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.

Webster 1913