saboted en · ADJ
Etymology
From sabot + -ed.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Of a projectile: held in place by a sabot (carrier).
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(not-comparable) Wearing a sabot or sabots (shoes).
A cheerful Dutch motif of saboted children,[…]
1968, Modern Packaging, page 133:Two swarthy peasants, male and female, who’d plainly wolfed down more than the customary quota of three square meals a day, were planting a saboted foot apiece on the nude, lily-white behind of an ample woman, her blond head circled in a crown of coins.
1952, Geri Trotta, Veronica Died Monday, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, pages 29–30:[…]the speaker suddenly claps her saboted foot down on the ground, and continues to rock and knit.
1868 July, “St. Michael’s Night”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics., volume XXII, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., chapter VIII, page 23:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| sabotted | alternative | lexicographic |