Sa`bot" (?), n. [F.]
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.