Definition of "sabotted"

Alternative form of saboted.

1. Of a projectile: held in place by a sabot (carrier).  quotations  examples

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   • The three types of ammunition for the SBR (Serial Bullet Rifle): from top to bottom, a 4.32 sabotted bullet for a 5.56 mm barrel, a normal 4.32 bullet, and a normal 5.56 mm bullet.

     1977, Armies & Weapons, page 31

   • Slugs such as Maxi-Balls and Buffalo Bullets and plastic sabotted bullets are illegal for the flintlock-only season.

     1999, The Pennsylvania Sportsman, page 58

   • This 8-pound, .54-caliber rifle comes equipped with a shallow-grooved 1:24 twist rifling, which makes it ideal for a wide array of sabotted bullets.

     2005, Dave Ehrig, “Muzzleloading Gun Types and Tips”, in Muzzleloading for Deer and Turkey, Stackpole Books, page 72

2. Wearing a sabot or sabots (shoes).  quotations  examples

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   • Nine-tenths of Englishmen hurrying through France find the monotony dreary, the same unfenced, wide-spreading sketches of land, the same bloused and sabotted peasantry, the same poplars on the road sides, and lime trees in the public places of the towns.

     1852 January, Angus B. Reach, “A Look into the Landes”, in Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, part I, number 278, London: Colburn & Co., […], page 81

   • They trot up the valley, past the flocks guarded by a sabotted boy and throaty Pyrenean dog, or meet a long train of muzzled but gaily caprisoned mules, under the tutelage of a dirty but handsome-featured Castilian.

     1861, John Kemp, chapter XVII, in Wild Dayrell; a Biography of a Gentleman Exile, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, page 363

   • The little one had filled her pitcher, and was leaning against the smooth bole of a beech-tree, her little sabotted feet lightly crossed below the blue hem of her short petticoat, her hands behind her back, the sunbeams twinkling on her tall white cap and snowy chemisette, on the knot of primroses in her black velvet bodice, on her delicate wild-rose face and the yellow ripples of her sunny hair.

     1882, Austin Clare, “Maidens at the Well”, in A Child of the Menhir, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], book V (Love’s Young Dream), page 89