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What is a sabot?

What is a sabot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A wooden shoe.
  2. A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel
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Some German machine guns stood their ground in the wood of sabot and contributed to the resistance of the enemy.
The sabot was a wooden disk about the same diameter as the shot.
The round shot should be sewed up in canvas or felt, strapped to a sabot, or snaked between two grommet-wads.
I had not been as fortunate as some detectives, for there was no evidence that the straws had ever been used in a sabot at all.
The Platinum Tip bullet also will be offered in a muzzleloading component, as a 260-grain bullet packaged with a sabot.
Between the barrel and the air chamber is a thin plastic diaphragm, which isolates the sabot from the high pressure air until shot time.

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