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the only weapon where you score by being faster than your opponent's regret
means A heavy cavalry sword with a curved blade and a single cutting edge — or, in modern fencing, the light weapon scored with slashing cuts as well as thrusts.
from English borrowed it from French 'sabre,' which took it from German 'Säbel,' itself likely arriving from Hungarian 'szablya' — a word tied to the verb 'szabni,' 'to cut.' The trail seems to run back into Eastern Europe and possibly the Slavic or Turkic horse cultures of the steppe, where curved cutting swords rode with cavalry. So the word, fittingly, came galloping westward from the lands of riders.
- hit rule
- Touch with edge or point both count
- right of way
- Whoever attacks first owns the point
- cavalry roots
- Designed to slash from horseback
- fastest fencing
- Bouts can end in under a second
- naming
- Named for the curved cutting blade it mimics
us cavalry sabre m1913 — standard sword issued to u.s. cavalry units through world war ii, 35 inches long with curved blade
napoleon's sabre — curved blade sword used by french military under napoleon bonaparte during early 1800s campaigns across europe