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A wooden shoe so good at breaking machines it named the act of sabotage.
means A sabot is a wooden shoe carved from a single block, traditionally worn by peasants and workers in France and other parts of Europe.
from From French sabot, a wooden shoe, likely a blend of older words for footwear — possibly mixing savate (a kind of shoe) with botte (boot). The famous tale links it to sabotage, claiming workers threw their sabots into machinery to jam it; more soberly, the verb saboter first meant to 'clatter along in wooden shoes,' hence to do clumsy, careless, or deliberately bad work — and from there, sabotage.
- etymology
- Sabotage may come from workers' clogs jamming gears
- design
- Carved from a single block of wood
- military use
- Modern tank rounds wear discarding sabots
- warm feet
- Stuffed with straw for insulation in Europe
- still danced
- Clog dancing turned the noise into rhythm
sabot strike — french workers threw wooden shoes into machinery during 1800s labor protests, coining the term
sabot round — armor-piercing ammunition with discarding sabot used in modern tank guns like the m1 abrams