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A sabot (/ ˈ s æ b oʊ /, US also / s æ ˈ b oʊ, s ə-/) [1] is a clog from France or surrounding countries such as The Netherlands, Belgium or Italy. Sabots are either whole-foot clogs or a heavy leather shoe with a wooden sole. Sabots were considered a work shoe associated with the lower classes in the 16th to 19th centuries.
Since wooden footwear was a hand-made product, the shape of the footwear, as well as its production process showed great local and regional diversity in style. At the beginning of the 20th century machine-made wooden footwear was introduced. After WW2, in particular, wooden shoes became uncommon. They were replaced by more fashionable all ...
Lead bullet being supported by a wooden cup sabot in a Delvigne gun. A cup sabot supports the base and rear end of a projectile, and the cup material alone can provide both structural support and barrel obturation. When the sabot and projectile exit the muzzle of the gun, air pressure alone on the sabot forces the sabot to release the projectile.
Sabot may refer to: Sabot (firearms) , disposable supportive device used in gunpowder ammunitions to fit/patch around a sub-caliber projectile Sabot (shoe) , a type of wooden shoe
In it the literal definition is to 'make noise with sabots' as well as 'bungle, jostle, hustle, haste'. The word sabotage appears only later. [2] The word sabotage is found in 1873–1874 in the Dictionnaire de la langue française of Émile Littré. [3] Here it is defined mainly as 'making sabots, sabot maker'.
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Henri-Gustave Delvigne (April 10, 1800 in Hamburg – October 18, 1876 in Toulon) was a French soldier and inventor.He became a captain in the French infantry service, from which he resigned on the outbreak of the 1830 July Revolution.
The US Sabot is an American pram sailboat that was designed by Charles McGregor as a one-design racer and first built in 1939. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The design is a development of McGregor's Sabot , based upon the plans published in The Rudder magazine in 1939.