Home › Words › S › sabresabre/ˈseɪ.bə/sabre means A light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.sabre is pronounced /ˈseɪ.bə/.EtymologyBorrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља, Sicilian sciàbbula.nounA light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.verbTo strike or kill with a sabre.e.g.“There lie poor sallow workworn weavers, and complain no more now; women themselves are slashed and sabred, howling terror fills the air; […]” — 1843 April 7, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in Past and Present:To open (a bottle) via sabrage.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).