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.