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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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The round shot should be sewed up in canvas or felt, strapped to a sabot, or snaked between two grommet-wads.
Modern guns will use a sabot or a pistol bullet, which come pre-packaged.
Between the barrel and the air chamber is a thin plastic diaphragm, which isolates the sabot from the high pressure air until shot time.
The sabot was a wooden disk about the same diameter as the shot.
During the First World War it housed Belgian refugees, who made sabot clogs in the workshop of Arthur Simpson, renowned furniture designer and wood-carver.
After the players have placed their bets, the dealer picks out three cards from the sabot putting them before him.

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