saboted

English

Alternative forms

• sabotted

Etymology

sabot +‎ -ed

Adjective

saboted (not comparable)

1. Of a projectile: held in place by a sabot (carrier).
2. Wearing a sabot or sabots (shoes).
   • 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:

     […] the speaker suddenly claps her saboted foot down on the ground, and continues to rock and knit.

   • 1952, Geri Trotta, Veronica Died Monday, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, pages 29–30:

     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.

   • 1968, Modern Packaging, page 133:

     A cheerful Dutch motif of saboted children, […]

Anagrams

• abodest, boasted