different between sabot vs slug

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabot. Doublet of ciabatta.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sæb??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sæbo?/
• Rhymes: -æb??

Noun

sabot (plural sabots)

1. A wooden shoe.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 8:

     She was a tiny little woman and wore big sabots and a big scoop.

2. A carrier around a projectile in a firearm, cannon or other type of artillery piece that precisely holds the projectile within the barrel

Translations

Anagrams

• basto, boast, boats

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.bot/

Verb

sabot

1. to understand, to comprehend

French

Etymology

From Middle French savate (“old shoe”), of unknown origin. Possibly from Tatar ?????? (çabata, “overshoes”), ultimately either from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (çaput, çap?t, “patchwork, tatters”), from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (çapmak, “to slap on”), or of Iranian origin, cognate with modern Persian ???? (?apat, “a kind of traditional leather shoe”).Akin to Norman chavette, Spanish zapato, Italian ciabatta and Portuguese sapato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.bo/

Noun

sabot m (plural sabots)

1. wooden shoe, clog
2. hoof

Derived terms

• sabot comme un sabot
• sabot de Vénus
• sabotage
• saboter
• voir venir quelqu'un avec ses gros sabots

Further reading

• “sabot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French sabot

Noun

sabot m (plural sabo?i)

1. sabot

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sl?g, IPA^(key): /sl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge, probably of Old Norse origin; compare dialectal Norwegian sluggje (“heavy, slow person”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”).

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18^th c.]
2. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. [from early 15^th c.]
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act IV Scene v^[1]:

     Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed.

3. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. [from 1620s]
   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 55,^[2]

     […] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge their Pieces with them.

4. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
5. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. [from 1880s]
6. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. [from 1750s]
7. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use. [from 1920s]
8. (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
9. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
10. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
11. (railways) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors but lacks a prime mover.
12. (television editing) A black screen.
14. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
15. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
16. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
17. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
18. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
    • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury

      money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug

19. A ship that sails slowly.
    • 1666,Samuel Pepys, Diary entry 17 October 1666

      His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.

Synonyms

• (a quantity of a drink): See also Thesaurus:drink

Derived terms

• black slug
• hump slug
• road slug
• sea slug
• slug line
• yard slug

Related terms

• lug
• sluggard

Translations

See also

• (gastropod): snail

Verb

slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
2. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
3. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
5. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.

6. To make sluggish.

   • So little do we fear , you slug you

Derived terms

• slugabed

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then ultimately cognate with German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”).

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

1. A hard blow, usually with the fist. [from 1830s]

Verb

slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

1. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

Derived terms

• slugging match
• slug it out

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “slug”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Guls, LUGs, lugs

Manx

Etymology

Cognate with Irish slog.

Verb

slug (verbal noun sluggey, past participle sluggit)

1. to swallow, swig, slug, guzzle, draw
2. to devour, gorge, gulp
3. to engulf

Mutation

Noun

slug m (genitive singular slug, plural sluggyn)

1. swallow, swig, draught

Mutation

Derived terms

• sluggag

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???

Adjective

slug

1. cunning

Declension

Related terms

• slughet

Yola

Etymology

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Verb

slug

1. to eat greedily

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN