sabrelike
adjEtymology From sabre + -like.
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resembling a sabre
- ABOUT 15 years ago I witnessed a 500-pound bluefin flown in from Montauk fetch $50,000 wholesale and watched it being cut with a lengthy sabrelike steel blade into tapering vertical quarters.2007 November 18, Mimi Sheraton, “Markets as Both Feast and Spectacle”, in New York Times: