sabres
Curved military swords
Sabres is the plural of sabre, a curved sword with a single cutting edge, historically used by cavalry.
The spelling is British; Americans write sabers.
Sabre rattling is aggressive posturing that threatens military action without committing to it: The general's speech was more sabre rattling than serious threat.
Cost or accusation
- dragoonsCompels by intimidation
- hussarsFast-moving mounted soldiers
- lancersSoldiers with long weapons
- troopersEnlisted cavalry soldiers
mounted · brigade · regiment · scabbard · uniforms · formation · squadron · battalion
Curved Eastern blade
- cutlassCurved slashing naval blade
- falchionCurved medieval cutting sword
- daoThe way, lowercase
- curved bladeBent cutting edge
single-edged · crescent · swept · backsword · horseman · slashing · mounted combat
charge
Cost or accusation
troopers · mounted · brigade · regiment · scabbard · uniforms · formation · squadron · battalion · gallop
scimitar
Curved Eastern blade
curved blade · single-edged · crescent · swept · backsword · horseman · slashing · mounted combat
foil
Defeat a plan
lunge · bout · piste · touché · feint · thrust · guard · counterattack · disengage · fleche
blade
Flat cutting edge
edge · guard · tang · pommel · sheath · weapon · dueling · sharpened · dress sword · officer
- cavalrycavalry, cavalryman, cavalry brigade, cavalry charges, cavalry officer
- arms and armorswords, shields, helmets, daggers, axes
- historical weaponsmusket, muskets, flintlock, flintlocks, pistols
- swordssword, longsword, rapier, rapiers, broadsword
- Color Guardcolor guard, flags, rifles, silks, winter guard
- Duelingduel, duels, dueling, duelist, pistols at dawn
sabresolive branches
Emblems of truce
peace treaties · diplomacy · negotiations · white flags · plowshares
- sabre-toothed tigerExtinct feline with elongated fangs
- sabre rattlingThreatening military display
- sabre-toothed catFanged prehistoric feline predator
- rattling the sabreThreatening military action theatrically
- rattling one's sabreAggressive military posturing
- rattle the sabreThreaten war without fighting