sabot

A shoe carved from a piece of wood, traditionally worn in some parts of Europe.

A sandal or shoe having a band of leather or other material across the instep.

A device that allows a projectile of a smaller caliber to be fired from a weapon of a larger caliber by filling the weapon’s bore and keeping the projectile centered. The sabot normally separates and falls away from the projectile a short distance from the muzzle.

A wooden shoe, made of one piece hollowed out by boring-tools and scrapers, worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, etc.

In parts of France, a sort of shoe consisting of a thick wooden sole with sides and top of coarse leather; a sort of clog worn in wet weather.

A thick circular wooden disk to which a projectile is attached so as to maintain its proper position in the bore of a gun; also, a metallic cup or disk fixed to the bottom of an elongated projectile so as to fill the bore and take the rifling when the gun is discharged.

A pointed iron shoe used to protect the end of a file.

In harp-making, one of the little disks with projecting pins by which a string is shortened when a pedal is depressed.

A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.

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.