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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Saber

/sāb'-ẽr/ · Sa·ber · IPA /ˈseɪ.bɚ/
01 n. A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
  1. 1.
    A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
Phrases & compounds
Saber fish — the cutlass fish.
02 v. t. To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
imp. & p. p. Sabered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sabering
  1. 1.
    To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
    “You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission.” — Burke.